The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-07
-FOUR WEEKS later news!

By the steamship Idaho, which arrived on Sun
day evening, we have San Francisco dates to July
22d, and New York and London kilograms to the
2lst. The following embraces the principal news
Secretary Fish. it is said. proposes that the
Cubans shall purchase Cuba from Spain. and that
the United States shall indorse the bonds for the
purchase money, taking a lien on the island for
security.
An excursion party left Chicago for California
on the 18th of July. comprising several Congress
men. State officers and other prominent gentlemen
of Wisconsin.
Two trains collided on the Erie Railway at West
Hope. The engine. mail, express and baggage car
were burned. There were some emigrauts in the
smoking car, five or six OF whom were Killed and
their bodies burned. The Rev. b. b. Halleck. of
New York. was burned to death. So far as is
known, six or seven were killed. Further ac-
counts say Halleck was not hart by the collision.
but was jammed in by broken timbers and slowly
burned to death. The fault of the disaster is attri-
buted to the engineer of the freight train. who
started out before the express passed. He has
disappeared.
The election in Virginia passed off quietly.
After nightfall the streets resounded with cheers
for Walker and victory. A meeting OF Walker
men was addressed by six colored men and several
whites, including Hunicntt. Prominent Walker
men claim the State by 10000, including a decided
majority in the Legislature.
Dispatches thus far show that Walker has carried
that State by 10000, and the Legislature by forty
one, joint ballot.
The election returns continue more and more
favorable to Walker. Returns this morning show
that the Walker men will have majority of sixty
on joint ballot in the Legislature.
The New York Board of Health has declared
Havana and Matanzas infected ports. This SUBJ
jects vessels therefrom to rigid quarantine exam
nation.
The World urges Spain to sell Cuba to the
Cubans. and thinks the United States will be
responsible for the payment of the price, taking
the Cuban customs dues as security.
A dispatch to the Telegram says the French
cable was successfully landed July 18th, at st.
Pierre, and the splice was made with the shore
cable connecting with the land Office there.
Senator Sumner writes a letter. taking decided
grounds with the Administration on the Cuban
question-holding that our Neutrality laws must
be enforced, and that the insurgents are not yet
entitled to recognition. He also says the people
of New England sustain his views on the alabama
question. and that we had better let the claims
rest a while.
The Secretary OF State was addressed in regard
to the new Atlantic cable preparing to land in
Massachusetts. Fish takes the same ground as the
Attorney General. that while the cable may be
landed, it cannot be operated except by consent of
Congress. Speculations exist as to what course
the Cable Committee will adopt.
The volcano of Colima. Mexico. was in a high
state of eruption, throwing up huge masses of fire
and ashes lava was flowing abundantly. The
inhabitants of the villages and towns within its