Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-04-09
The Volcanic Eruption at Honolulu
Splendid Sight h

ult. ~ he IfamOus volcanic Alanna Loa is
ag,intin a,State of eruption. Tho village
Eof Wdinauelli, forty miles distn.t, eon the
sea coast, has been ovor-run with the lava
and Destroyed. The Inhabitants were oryus-
cd ht tile midnight hour by the Kissing ahd
roaring of tie approaching fire, and had
but just time to save themselves. The
crater is from 500 to 500 feet across its
mouth. The lava is thrown. up in contin-
uous columns, accompanied by a dense
smoke, to the height of 5000 feet. n
letter to the Alta Califprniu, says.
On Sunday. january 23d, mt | o clock p.
W., without any of the usual promonitofy
phenomena iof earthquakes, subterrnean
sounds, or sultry weather, the lava burst
| ont spmc. three thousand feet from the SUM
NIT of Mamma Loa, or ten thousand feet
above the level of the sea, and such was the
rnpidity of the flow, that before morning
spectators at iIilo, a distance of sixty miles
from the eruption, were of opinion that the
lava had runadiStanee of twenty five miles
down the mountain side,
This eruption is tleelared BY old res.
dclits to be greater in. volume, and more
| magnificent in appearance. than: any previ-
ous one that can be remembered. At La
hona, a distance of four hundred miles from
the crater, OH Saturday night, the 10Th of
january, the volcanic was distinctly vis-
BILE, illuminating une-third of the Heavens
like that uf an immense and neighhoring
conhngrution; and from elevated positions,
/ it is asserted that the shoots of liquid flame
could be seen at intervals, as the immense
caudron boiled and bubblcd. The sea-
was lighted up with the reelection of the
! fame everywhere within one hundred miles
of the crater. and the coasting vessels en-
! ioycd the advantage without the presence
ofu full moon. Lots of dead fish were o!-
served floating about in the neighborhuod
of the islands, both before and since tho
commencement of the eruption, and the in
ference is, tha. they we're Killed by subu,u-
rinc fire or heat connected with the yolca-
no. We of Honolulu, have experienced ~
sensible change of climate, which fact is
also attributable to the eruption By last
accounts not far frtm one Thousand square
miles of the surface of the island of Hawaii
must have been covered by the burning
lava, causing a grcaterarcfraction of air all
over that place.
The eruption is ontlc West side of Man
ma l.oa, new crater estimated ut five to
eight hundred feet across, having formed
there, from which the liquid n,aSs was mo
mcnt,.rily elected in immense Jets ofu tliuu-
sand to fifteen hundred feet high, and fall
ing over the sides. poured duw,ItowarCs -lie
sea. This it rca :hed on the 31st nit, ut II
place called Walnnuaii, about twelve miles
to the Westward of kawamue, and forty
miles from the crater. Here it destroyed
a native village, and finc grove of coco
anut trees, running out into the sea two
miles, and entirely filing the little harbor.
The inhabitants OF the mmlct were rous-
ed from 90 tho slulnbcrs of midnight bv
the approach of the liquid fire, and had
hardly time to save themselves. At ths
point the stream is ouly two hundred yards
in width, and by last accounts had cooled
over on the surface, so that one cail walk
over it, at the risk however, of brcakinr
through the thin crust into tie still iiow.
| ing stream beneath. Where the fire meets
water, very splendid sight presents itself,
| old ocean Kissing and spoutlng like a huge
sea serpent, and constantly sending up
clouds oflstcam and cascades of water.
| second stream has start,d from the crater,
end at hast accounts w. $ running down par
allcl with the first flow.
ARREST or FORGER.--W oTreported, somo
ten or twelve days since. the arrest of a pcr-
son IN Boston. charged witllturgeres commit
tcd on several names in Petersburg Va, and
giving his name as Argentine This inven-
I'VE writer has been escorted back to Virgin
Ia. under awarrant and rcausition, and ar
riving in Richmond on Wednesday, last, was
I'm nediatoiy identified. Evidence has trans
pred, also. which renders IL almost certain
that he was the author and receiver of two
forged checks against the names Of two Of
our mercantile houses. which were passed.
and cnsbcd at the counter of'the Union Bank
IN this city, Some weeks before citbcr of tho
ltorgcries referred to had bcc, committed, u
person--straigcr in this city--was tho un-
conscious object Of the special regards antG
yigIihnt attentions of orr keen7cyc1 and skill
tnl officer, f. l.. Schpuboe,p the Detectives.
on tho 1diSappearance and departure Of. this
person, MIR. Schouboe Communicated his in
formation and lcs lslt -nf his ,,Isn.,.ot;,,,t g.