AMERICA.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 623, 15 January 1870, Page 3

AMERICA.

v : ■ New York; Nov. 11> *"It has-been finally 'decided that the Uiiited States invite tlie South American States^ through our accredited Ministers, jfcq sen&'reptesentatives to a conference in Waihingtoni-ifamiary 15, next year". A Washington Hemld special says the decision of the United States Commissioners in the case of the officers of the Cuba is regarded as very favorable to the Cuban cause. The Spanish Minister is disgusted, and his spies have gone home. " A private cable despatch says that on the 27th of October a severe earthquake shook Manila. All the houses were shaken ; some of the city walls fell. There were many accidents, but no Europeans are reported killed. The Legislature of Panama passed resolutions unanimously in favor of the Isthmus Canal. The volcano of Perce, in the interior of Colombia, has had a violent eruption, and two or \hree villages are reported destroyed, with all the inhabitants. Soon after the eruption, the river Congo, at the town of Poplan, fifteen miles from the volcano, rose quite high, and quantities of lava floated thickly by, strewn with the dead bodies of the people. The next day the river was quite dry. v . — ■ — ■ — (For continv.ition of news see Fourth, Page.)