Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01
VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT SANDWICH ISLANDS

The San Francisco papers of March 9th contain
intelligence from Honolulu to the 10th of that
month. There had been another eruption Of Mauna
Loa, the Hawaiian volcano, of which the following
account is published in extra from the Polynesan
Office, dated on the 9Th of March:
HILo FEBRUARY q, 1852.
On the 18th instant at twenty minutes past A. NJ
small beacon light appeared 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 boodred fusion poured
out Of the same orce apparently which dsgorged such
awful floods in 1843.
We were awakened at about o'clock and saw a glare
Of light streaming through the windows Our thought
that building us was on fire. but on rising
we soon perceived that the whole summit of the mountain
was radated and that vast furnace there gang with
vehement heat The molten food rolled down side Of the
mountain rapidly that in judged its
brancy This How continued through the day, but with
creasng energy 1t became sluggish night the next
day. Or after twenty hours were visible from
the station smoke by day, and NO FIRE by night
AT o'clock M on the goth, yesterday perceived fire
issuing from the side of the mountain Ho about
half way down the mount This lateral became
intensely active pouring out CORY Hood which reached
the base Of the mount AT first the shot directly to-
wards Ho put meeting some obstacle the foot Of the
mount Its direction was changed to the NORTH and 1t s
flowing towards Mauna Kea.
vast between the already filed with fire.
and the scene by night IL of terrible sublmiy The red
hot lava still rolls out Of the side of the mountain in awful
floods 1t the bowels of Pluto were being dis
gorged while write whole atmosphere is filed with
urd smoke through which the down upon us with
yellow and balefu light
The horizon hung in murky drapery detonatons like
distant thunder are heard from the mountain, and capom
flaceous vitrifactons filing Streets
MONDAY, 23The eruption is still internally active. The
fiery flood In the upper region Of the woo and the
is great.
Huo, FEBRUARY 20, 1852.
add line the above inform you that upto this date
the action Of the late eruption is undiminished Truly
island fire. line from Mr. Coan informs that he
passed within five six miles of stream Of lava Yesterday
which burning its path through the woods in the erection
Puma This action the mountains intense last
night on mountains than It has been since the morning of
the 18th need not add that all deeply interes in
knowing when and where and how this fiery GOOD Is TO
reach the The locality Of Its almost precludes tn
hope that its progress be as harmless former
cason.
To this account from its correspondent the Polyne-
sian adds.
BY advices from Ho to the I'd instant further learn that
the Of lava had burnt through woods to within If
miles Of Hlo, and that still progressing The cur
rent not rapid at frs but is gradually filing up
all the inequalities Of the ground and supposed that
date that would ultimately reach the discharge itself
into the bay Of Hifo
The light at night very brilliant and at Ho II was
most as light as day.