The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-05-12
Foreign.


MEsioo.
Tho English mail steamer Mercy arrived n Ha.
yaua, Wednesday from Vera Cruz on Tho "a inst.
and the passengers report that just before sailing
telegram was roreiyeda az Vera Cruz. announcing
that revolution had taken place at tho capital
aud that president Jurc1 wac aging 70 The Texas
/ frontier with t70oo000 in bis possession. Tho
yora Cruz Journal and private letters are uilcnt
upon tie subject.
The American men Of war ossipoe. saawanoe
and Resaca and the English msu u war Chauti.
clear are st Eazatlan whore other American yos.
sells are expected.
! Cebello acting Bishop Of Mexico, 10 dead.
| The government has dsapproyed the action Of
the governor o. Yuoatan IN suspending tho olec.
tons.
Senior Romeor has published documents against
/ Gen. ortcga.
Mr.. Plum, the acting American minister, has
presented documents from the government al
Washington, expressing regret aud sympathy in
the matter Of The attempted assination q Juroz,
who responded in an address, thanking The min
lister and the American government and oypres-
sing his wish TO preserve always the amioablo re-
lations between the two republics
The attempted conspiracy at ori2aba has been
defeated. The collectors Of customs throughout
the republic baye been opjoined 60 pay al drafts
on The national treasury. The death penalty has
been abolished. The usual humber Of murders
and robberics is reported.
Three hundred and seventy Thousand dollars Of
Eugieh and French bonds have been purchased
for $50 600, and $40 900 more hae been appropriat
ed for the same purpose.
Gen Escobodo il experimenting Tho building Of
telegraph line 60 San Luis Potoai
Gen. La Barre and William pritchard have made
proposition to Congress to run steamship from
Vera Cruz to New Orleans and Europe at mod
crate subyention.
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The bark Comet from the Sandwich Islands,
has just arrived NJ San Francisco and brings ac-
counts Of a terrible yoleanic eruption by Mauna
Loa, which began its demonstrations on March n
On the 2sth one hundred earthquake shocks
were felt, and during the two weeks following, 10
April 49, 1000 earthquake shocks occurred At
Waschina, the earth opened in many places and
q tidal wave, 60 feet high rose over tho tops Of
the Cocoa trees for quarter Of a mile inland,
sweeping human beings, houses and everything
movable before IT,
A terrible shock Frustrated the churches and
houses and killed many persons In OIL 100 lives
were lost besides thousands Of horses and cattle
The craters yomited fire, rocks aud lava aud a
river of red bot lava five or six miles long, flowed
to the sea at the rate of ten miles per hour burn
ing everything before II and forming an island in
the sea and new crater two miles wide opened
and threw rocks and streams Of lava five thousand
feet high. At one time the Nominations extend
ed 50 miles at night. The lava has pushed ont
from shore one mile. At waisehina, three milee
from the shore a conical island rose suddenly emit
ting column Of steam and smoke, while the Ko-
no packet was passing, spatterng mud on the yes-
sell
/ The greatest shock occurred, April q Prior to
the eruption there was great shower Of ashes
and puinice. During the great shock the swing
ing motion Of the earth was dreadful, 50 that no
person could stand. In the midst u this trcmen-
dous shock, red earth poured down The mountain
rushing across the plaa three miles 10 three min
utes, and then ceased. Then came the great IL
dal wave, and then streams Of lava; the villages
on the shore we're destroyed by this wave The
earth opened under the sea and Redeemed the
water. The earth eruption swallowed thirty per-
sons, and the sea many more. Great suffering
and terror prevailed in The district and the whole
region WAS affected Tic sloop Live Yankee has
been dispatched with provisions, ETC., to rescue
and relieve.
Further accounts say that a stream u water has
burst from the mountain where the earth eruption
occurred. The base Of the volcano Is about 30
miles IN eireumfcronee, and Ii desoated. Al least
half million dollars worth II property has been
destroyed Tho king u the Sandwich Islands has
/ Issued proclamation for the relic Of the safer
ers. Many visitors 70 tho scene ~ The eruption
have gone from Honolulu aud many viii 70 from
San Francisco. The worst il thought 10 BE- over
bat the flow Of lava continues II q grand spec.
tscle
/ The Honolulu correspondence u he San Fran
4 cisco Bulletin gives the detaiis Of the eruption
showing that the earthquake shocks extended 70
al the islands o. the Hawaiian group but no dam
age rs known 70 have occurred, except around Ma
una Loa. Numerous extensive lard slides accom-
panied the other phonomanA destroying life and
property The summit and side hil, 1900 feel 10
height, thrown a Thousand feet oyer The TOPS
q trees and landed IN The valley belon. The gas-
+ e that issued aftsraard destroyed both gegata-
ble and esirlal hfe Bpttomless issues opeped
! ia the mountain ride Thelava stream flowed un-
I der ground breaking out IN tggf jsts, SIS miies
fron the sea and throwing lays aud stone 1000 .
1870 feet high aud wss Afterwards joined 10 tbs
z main iand by stream u lava = uilie side.