The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-10-11
FOREIGN NEWS.

I Ne are indebted TO Mr.. II. NJ. Whitney for n copy
Of the Portland Daily Bulletin of Sept. 10. and To
ICaptain Forbes Of the Clara Louise, for the s. r.
Chronicle of Sept. 4, from which papers we CLEAN
the following items OF news:
SPRINGFELD (Mass) Sept. 2.--The Springfield
Republican caucuses tonight are full and lively.
Two of them used a check list in voting. Those
elected Washburne delegates. In two Others there
was n split on the refusal TO use check lists. and
two sets of delegates were chosen from those wards.
The result in the city is: Washburne. 4 Butler,
IL contested 3. Our foOtings for the State 80 far
are Washburne, l22 Butler. 1872 doubtful. ..
PARIS, Sept. 1.-THE number Of deaths by chol
era in this city. from the 9th 20 the 18th instant.
was l2l.
NEW YORK. Sept. ls.-Mail adviees from Paris.
of the 9th inst, say official documents communion
ted yesterday to the Paris Academy OF Medicine
confirm the reports that the cholera prevails In
France. At Havre. during last month, out Of AS
deaths ITO are from that malady. and at Rouen
there are at present 20 deaths a day from the same
cause. The epidemic is rapidly spreading through.
out Normandy.
LONDON. Sept. 1.-THE corn and iron merchants
of Liverpool, in a letter, admit that iron may be-
probably purchased in New York for shipment 10
England, and say they are convinced that The
American trade is lost 10 England.
LONDON, Sept. I7.-Earl Harwicke, Lord Lieut..
Of Cambridgeshire, died to-day, aged "a.
PARIS, sept. Il.-Mr. stern. an EDgllHn traveller
just arrived from Central Africa. reports that he
met DIR. Livingstone last June, and parted from him
on the first Of July. The Doctor was then In per
feet health.
VIENNA. Sept. 1.-THE King of Italy arrived
here to-day and was cordially received by the En-
peror and pOpulace.
CHICAGO, Sept. III p. M.-The fire is finally UNI
der complete control, Notwithstanding the strong
wind which is blowing from the southwest. No
further danger is apprehended.
CHICAGO, Sept. l7-Evening.-The total loss sus-
tanned by the fire this afternoon is estimated at
from S250.000 TO S300, 000. The total number OF
buildings destroyed is estimated al Ga, they being
wooden tenements. from one to three stories high.
occupied mainly as residences, stores and shops.
The fire originated in a large wooden shed used by
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and NORTH
western Railroads for storing transfer Of hay, sitn-
ated on the corner Of Newbury Avenue and The
railroad track, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets. The number OF families rendered homeless
is greatly disproportioned TO the number OF houses
burned, as every tenement was crowded 10 its nj
most capacity, many Of them containing five or six
families.
CHICAGO. Sept. l8-Private dispatches from New
York confirm the report Of the failure Of Jay Cooke
IL Co, but do not state the extent or particulars Of
the failure.
New YORK. Sept. Is.-Jay Cooke az Co. announce
their suspension in consequence Of large advances
made TO sustain their Philadelphia house, and the
heavy drain upon their own deposits.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1S-The great firm Of Jay
Cooke q Co. has suspended. A crowd is now col
lected around their place OF business.
New YORK, Sept. Is-There is great excitement
on the street in consequence OF the announcement
of the failure of Jay Cooke Il Co. The question
generally asked is. Who next? Stocks too, trem-
Bile, generally caused as much by appreheDsions OF
the future as by the existing condition OF affairs.
Prominent men on Wall street attribute the sus-
pension not so much TO the effort TO sustain the
Philadelphia house as TO operations in the North
ern Pacific Railroad, which it is said they sought
to carry beyond their strength. II is expected
that the Life Insurance Companies with which Jay
Cooke q Co. are connected may have TO go under.
1t is also said that Jay Cooke lost large sums In
the recent gold movement. Some say they are I'M
able to make any further statement save that they
expect TO resume business in 4 short time. There
il a general breaking Of stocks Of from one 10 ten
per cent. under the rush 70 sell. Great excitement
continues. Western Union fell from S81 to IS1
New York Central. from 900 to S74 Wabash, from
SEA to 5l3 Northwestern, from 81 TO 491 North
western Preferred, from &c to IA Rock Island
fell from IO3 to 80 Pacific Mail, from 42a to 81.
3P. M-The excitement is intense at the Stock
Exchange. Vanderbilt stands by his Central, and
Lake Shore and Pacific Mail are cared for, but
Western Union fell from So to 7s1. Money Is quiet
at Z. No failures other than that Of Jay Cooke a
Co. are announced. 1t is said Jay Cooke, McCul-
loch & Co., are solvent, with a large surplus above
all liabilities. A Philadelphia dispatch says r.. w.
Clarke & Co. have suspended.
YELLOW FEVER IN LoUIsIANA.-Forty deaths per
day at Shreveport, La, in a population oil 4O,OOO.
Great alarm and distress, physicians and nurses
exhausted, and the country appealed TO for relief.
Capt. Howard of the Alaska has been fined
Sl6. 900 for landing in San Francisco 3GS Chinese
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