The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-19

passengers OF the Gold Dust were saved. aud
only one slightly sc,lded. Twelve Of the
wounded are at Hickman. not being able to
be moved yet. The Gold Dust. at the time
of the explosion. had one hundred persons
ON board eighteen are missing, and they
are supposed TO have gone down in the
wreck.
CoLUMBUs. o., Aug. 5.-The loss by the
waterspout of Thursday is greater than first
supposed. Sixteen or eighteen miles Of the
Ohio Central track is almost entirely de-
s,royed, with no traces OF rails ever having
been located there. Most of the live sock
in two valleys were swept away.
LAREDO. Tex Aug. 5.-The prevailing
fever at Matamoras is reported to be increas-
ing. Seven deaths occurred today. There
is no exact sccount of the total number OF
cases, bit 1t is reported that II is between
300 and 400. The disease prevails among
the higher classes as well as among the
lower.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The President
has nominated u. 5. Grant and w. H..
Prescott Commissioners TO negotiate n com-
mercial treaty with Mexico, and JOHN H.
Dillon, of Missouri, Secretary Of Legation Of
the United States to Mexico.
WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Secretar y Chand-
Ter cabled the United States Minister of St.
Petersburg that Congress had made provi-
sion for bringing home the remains of
Lieuten mt Commander DE Long and his
companions, and asked that he telegraph to
Lieutenant Harber at Irkutsk TO h We sledges
built TO bring the bodies TO Orenburg. where
metallic cases will be found in waiting.
CHICAGO, August 5.---It is proposed on the
23d of August t. have n celebration at
Ogden's Grove, to raise funds for a monu-
ment to John Brown.
HAMMERFEsr, August a "A sloop has
brought letters from Sir Allen Young com
handing the Ezra search and relief steamer
Hope, dated Karmahuld, Nova Zembla,
August 10Th, stating that the Hope was
there and all on board well. The Hope had
a stormy voyage, encountering ice and fog.
There is no news of the Ezra, but a Rus
sian captain boarded her off Nova Zcmbla
at the end of last July. Sir Henry Gore
Booths yacht Kara, which is also sea rching
for Leigh Smith, was lying in the same
harbor with the Hope.
PEoRL. On August 3--The Green
back State Convention yesterday, outside of
the platform, passed "A resolution TO the eff
feet that the scheme of England in the EN-
deavor to absorb and subiugate Egypt was
characteristic of England, the Shylock and
pir lie, and deserves the execration of m n
kind. Also that If the United St-tes does
not enter an emphatic protest it would be
evidence that Shylocks, if not pirates. al
ready control our capital as well as the
British throne; also that the attitude of in
difference of the United States tow I'd the
oppressed Russian Nihilists and the perse.
cuted Irish, is unworthy of a Republic, is
shameful to the United States as a nation,
and misrepresents and bellies the sentiment
of the American people. and would brand
us as ~soulless demagogucs. alo, that Arab
Bey is engaged in another and distant field,
by different methods, in fighting the bond
holders. the tax-eaters and the Shylocks, as
well as battling for the forlorn hope of
liberty in Europe, and that he has the
hearty sympathy of this convention.