The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-04-04
A.rIrwArI, New Grenada, March l4th.


AsrrrwALL, New Grenada, March l4th.
DEAR SAnpERs:-At O'Clock r. M. Sa-
turday, 9Th inst, the mammoth steamer Ge-
orgia left the pier of New York harbor, your
humble servant duly and comfortably lodged
on board. Nothing Of moment transpired on
our passage to disturb the mono:ony Of the
Evoysge, until we reached the West indies,
save ever and anon the meeting. passing or
observing in the distance, vessels of every
calebre bearing to home or foreign ports the
commerce of a world.
Our trip was truly pleasant one, as we
met with neither storms nor adverse winds
The Georgia had about six hundred passcn-
gers, representatives of every Caste COLOR
name, tongue and sex; and when eongregat-
ed. uponrhe promenade deck, and ALI talking
at once, which, by the way, was often the
case, formed as mixed group Of Babs.ltes
as ever together mingled insa little space
Many have been sea-sick, some frpm the time
we struck the first billow of the briny deep,
until we noored at AspinwalI, but as for my
self, had the good. fortune. 70 experience
nothing more than slight dizziness, which
lasted but short time. a.
! On the afternoon of the lltk we came in
sight of the island Of Ineagra, one of the
West India group and portion of the Bri-
fish possessions in this latittde. Ineagra
lies east of Cuba. and some twenty five
miles from it,. The town, bearing the name
of the island, is handsomely situated upon the
east side Of a large. safe, ani beautifully
curved bay, where vessels mayssfely lie, free
| from distractions of wind or wave. Here it
is that much of your coarse rock salt is pros
cured which, in quality, is represented as
equal to the far famed "Rock Hand" The
town Of Ineagra has some fifteti hundred in
habitants, whose industry is rsoresented as
far below par, and whose .hoHsy anything
hut proverbial. This. islandswas formerly
the rendez vous of pirates, ant many are the
soul-stirring yarns spun by the hardly, wealth
er.beater tsrs, of the cruel AID daring ex-
PLOTS of thu eesperadoes who'infested the
small though beautiful isle, in dys past We
found several vessels anchord about the
town, taking in cargoes of sal
/ On tie morning of the Ia we hove in
sight ofsSan Domingo, md ? we coasted
along iss western border, within a few hun
! dred yards Of its steep. rugges aid dangerous
i bluffs, every eye was arrested viii the mag
nicence Of the scenery. 40 satisfied !
never beheld more mountdnus country,
THAN this island presents. whos hills-ris-
ing one above the other in aPrsnt studied
= arrangement. arrayedin the quest garb Of
green, presenteda landscape. wich for beau
lty, no pencil save that of natur could e'er
frame the duplicate. AS we sgd over. the
. fishing grounds, we passed throyh feetssof
smccks occupied by aafives easged in the
llaudable enterprise of nshipg who, as we
eliaed by them With the stas I'd stripes float
: ting in tke.brecze. swung their ats aloft and
cheered US on our way. $780,
: After leaving the shoresofsan Domingo,
monotonously and tediously id the hours
pass. unrelieved except by an ocasion al song
or the merry voice of the violihs it sooth-
+ ingly andscheeringiy invited il votaries to
s. the pleasures of the dance, in wch exercise
IL the ladies-and we had not W on board
IN took part with right hearty ,od will.
e To-day, Mardh l4ih, we ancEed at As
70 pinwall, or Navy Bay. Three ears ago
n was at this spot. At that time. pt house
stood, where now qnite thriftyillage flour
ishes. Here, as you are nwanshe year is
J. divided into what is termed the Vt and dry
H. seasons, and here the orange, t; cocoanut,
: the banana, the p'antan. and e various
other products of a southern Gilmore found
in wild profusion, and trees and rubs are
green the year round; and as the light and
e glittering sun occasionally breaks rough
o sky of storm and pours its radiancehrough
r wet leaves and dropping boughs, tie e wan
ders,. lost in the clear perspective,f the
5. opering glades, and birds sing sweev, and
Isl fruits and flowers simmer bright, as houch
t they had never been overcast by the ,rro'
b, and gloom cf tempest. But am tting
., prosey. Tomorrow We take the riroad
fer Barbaroa-distant % milss-fom ence
to Gorgona, by the natives in their hos Or
:, dugoufs, seven miles distant. At Goona
we hire mules which take US to Panama,
" day. From Panama shall probably ute
you again, if have the opportunity.
nj AS some of my friends wished me to We
= them the exact expenses from. New Yorko
San Francisco, will endeavor to do o,
6 through the JOURNAL, as near as posse
The tickets-through tickets--range as l.
r. lows: First cabin S3l5 90; second o
IS 5000 90; steerage SIS 90. The expens
upon the Isthmns to be borne by the passt
: gers, are as follows: From Aspinwl
De to Barbaroa by railroad, IS 90; from Bari