The Nevada journal., 1852-07-03

fout hundred passengers, Cor California,
among whom were twenty FIVE ladies
and twenty.three childyen. The Cher
okee, belonging to the u. 8. M. Steam
ship Co., 10 ab excellent boat, and usu-
ally makes ho2 trips in good time. but
owing to some breakage in her machin-
cry, occupied seven days in her run TO
Hayann, ihirty-six hours Of which were
,pent in drifting with still wheels about
.as Atlantic. The weather during the
whole trip was most delightful, the
breeze bnt little moving the ocean, yet
charged with Q coolness most grate-
fai as copnteracting the suH's force, into
whose dominions we were advancing. =
That vile monster. sea-aiekness, had no
pretence to board our craft, and many
of the passengers, unused to Neptune's
pecul,arities, began to fancy the terrors
Of the sea a fiction: 72!' 'l -'i
Notwithstanding the pleasantness Of
sea and sky, and consequent comfort Of
the passage, the sight Of the battlements
Of old Moro, on the morning Of the sew
cnth day, was most delightful as the
FIRST landmark on our journey. Havana
exhibits the pecuIiarities Of Spanish
city with . crowded business and bad
facilities for accomplishing it. The lack
Of nearly oil kinds Of machinery, its
narrow streets and illy.lighted and venti-
lated stores, the Incidence Of its native
and knavishnes Of its foreign residents,
with oppressive restrictions upon trade
and travel, oil conspire to make busi-
ness slow. footed and unsafe. The exac-
tons Of the suspicious. government. are
omnipresent; no one escapes the eye
Of the government spies, no ono suspect
ed escapes arrest. The great fertility
Of Cuba is apparent from the confines
Of Havana. No one can wonder at the
great revenues derived from this island,
unhappily turned against the source
from which they sprins-or doubt Of it
brilliant destiny, in the hands Of on
Intelligent and free people--who obtains
q eight Of its teeming hillsides and val-
leys, and remembers it is the key Of the
Atlantic, and an important point on the
line of Pacific travel !. gr t.
Az Havana the passengers Of. the
Cherokee we're transferred to the Fl
Dorado The Philadelphia was also in
port, crowded with passengers for New
Yuk. The trip from Hayana to Aspin:.
wall was eyentful only. ~ The dsath and.
burial Of little, girl, about. nine years
old. Tho waves closed. over her slight
form as lightly as though it had found
its natural resting place--yet who was
ever SO welded to the sea rs to prefer a
rest in its COLI embrace to . bed beneath
the grassy mantle Of mother earth ;
Aspinwall, the terminus Of the Pana.
ma railroad, is fast being filled with the
population and business Of chagres, the
latter. place having relapsod into positive
insignifcance since tho change Of travel
The chasgs 70 AspinwaM is advantage
| Gus for many reason. The landing at
Chagres is difficult and dangerous, and
many lives have been lost. there. The
railroad already shortens the river trav-
el about forty nsilos, and is being pushed
rapidly onward. The contract is that
the road shall be finished through to
Panama in sixteen months msre-a diff
cult task in country where foreigners
cannot work. and natives ,riH not. The
steamers land their passengers at . pier
within two hundrcd,yards Of the depot,
50 that there is little trouble in getting
baggage and all on the cars, and steam
ing off for Torniquillo, the other termi.
nation of the railway in June. Large
gangs of men were scattered along the
road at work, and everything seemed to
eyincc determination to complete the
undertaking rs speedily as possible =
1.-THE road runs most Of the way on piles
through swsmpy land. The vegetation
over the whole surface is rank to the
highest degree, varying from grasses ur
to sturdy monsrchs Of the forest, three
hundred feet in height. To the tops o.
the highest hills is the same sea o.
| verdure, knit together by innumerabl.
creepers, that bind in, an endless en-
brace the whole Isthmus. Whore ths
closely in-hemming shrubbery afforded
rs glance al the landscape, it wal
| han ntsful. Ever and anon re pnssed