The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-12-13
From New York.
New YoRK, December 6.

| NEW ObA, D.
A special telegram from Havana con
! tains further news from st. Thomas and
other W est India Islands.
The report that the United States steam
ers DeSota and Nonoagdhela had beer
wrecked in the storm off Santa Cruise. il
confirmed 1t is thought that the greater
part of the egs woull be saved.
Mole earthquake shocks are reported
and everybody was endeavoring to eml
CRATE.
The Ianish commissioner had arrived to
deliver the island Of St. Thomas to the
| United States.
The frigate Nararre, with Maximilian'
remains, left Havana yesterday for Trieste.
New YORK, December 10.
A Richmond special says: There will
be probably five hundred delegates at the
conservative convention on w ednesday.
! Ext Congressman Thomas S. Tourney is q
delegate from Halifax county. He is a
representative man, and says the conven-
ton will be opposed to universal suffrage,
but will favor impartial suffrage, on educa-
| tional and property qualifications. The
convention will also favor Grant fol the
Presidency, on the New York platform,
and will be liberal in every particular. An
duuItsS w III bC iSSECts ~ ttlC iCUpiC Vi Vic
United States, setting forth these views.
A radical caucus viii be held on Thurs
day, night, to nominate a Governor aud
other State officers
Senator Wilson will be here tomorrow
to look after affairs.
HAVANA, December 4.
On the 18th ult., the severe shock of an
earthquake was experienced at Santa Cruz
Tho St,nci- .,lco foit of ba lf -
rising to a great height and becoming very
angry and tempestuous. The United
States war steamer DeSota was dashed
however, was all saved. The United States
steamer MoaongaAe5u was also dashed on
the same day at Contratown.- but the eX-
tent of her injuries is not stated.
Forty seven shocks of earthquake, rap
idly succeeding each other, were felt at
ST. Thomas on the I'd Of November. One
shock lasted two minutes. The sea rose
sixty feet on the city, ana everything was
submerged. The loss Of life was enormous,
and an immense quantity Of merchandise
was destroyed. The surviving inhabitants,
houseless and destitute, have fled to the
mountains, those that remained are striving
by every means to leave the island. The
ctSoii+-t L<tt Il tittt 10 tItG NtSSCl W HIGH
has sailed since the calamity, and she left
l50 persons behind for want of accommo
dations. Every business firm on the island
is lns0lvent, and all steamship and other
companies have abandoned it. No coal
is to be had, and the wharycs are destroyed.
At the time of the sailing Of the steamer
the earthquake continued at intervals.
The destruction is incalculahle at st. Thorn
as, aud also at Tortola and St Croix Lit
tie Saba is a horrible voicauo and nearly
burned to ashes.
No intelligence has been received from
St. Domingo since the hurricane. The re-
port that there has been an earthquake
there was incorrect. The statement refer
red to ST. Croix.
Santiago, Dec, 3.-Mi1night.
The Goyernor of St. Thomas has return
ed from Europe, te deliver that i>land to
the United States according to stipulation
The amount to be paid by the United
States is 81, 500, 600.
The United States steamer Monongahela
is a total loss.
Santiago Dec. 4.
Later advices from St. Thomas state that
the shocks of an earth0uake had reased.