The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-01

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The United States mail Steamship Georgia, Cap
tain MCGOWAN, arrived at New York on Friday
afternoon from Aspinwall which place she left on
the Goth instant. She has bspught the United
States mails, large number Of passengers. and
IL COS, 463 in gold The Consmercial .advert;ser
gives the following summary of her intelligence:
The California intelligence by the arrival is to
the LIST instant, no later than that previously in
our possession
From the Isthmus.
We have Aspinwalr papers to the 18th, and
Panama to the 18th instant
The Panama papers state that the health of that
city ir excellent, and the reports of sanitary mat
tiers from other parts of the sthmus are favorable
The extra session of the Congress of New Gre
NADIA closed at Bogota on the 18th of June.
correspondent of the Panama Star says:
''The law was sanctioned by which civil and
religious matters entirely separated; also was
passed by the two houses the law regarding mat
rimony, which recognises marriage simple
contract and provides for divorces in some cases,
and almost ut the will of the parties; but it has
not yet been officially promulgated
''Nevertheless this will have to be done, because
annulled, as the anterior canonical dispositions
which regulated that affair already by the law
regarding religious liberty, no one could be mar
ried for the space of one year.
''The disorders of which the capital has been the
theatre are being Gained The administration is
now going on in rational manner in which state
it has not been for the last two months.
It has resigned itselfto the necessity of accept
ing the new constitution, which in reality it did
not like, because it il convinced that its fall
would have boon inevitable if it had manifested
any opposition to it,
"All the government officials here are conserva-
tves but with ideas which favor first the existing
authority But they will have to be convinced
that the world is not their property, and that they
will have to accept and discharge their func-
tiOns in the manner and to the extent the people
require.
The adviccs from Bogota were to the Odd of
June. The country continued in very disturbed
state, and another young man had been killed in
political disturbance.
Se1or Florentine Gonzales was recovering from
his wounds.
General Herrera was to leave the scat of gov
eminent for Panama at the end of July.
On tho night of the Sd instant a fire took place
at Cruces that consumed the greatest part of the
town, and destroyed large amount of property.
MIR. Joy is said to have been the heaviest suffer-
er, his losses being estimated from $4,000 to
$20, 900. The fire is supposed to have been the
work of an ncendiary.
report was in circulation on the I'd Of July
that mule load of gold was stolen, near Savan-
nah Grande, from the train that was taking to
Cruces the specie brought down by the Golden
Gate.
The report originated in mule having straycd
away from the conductor of the train He was
aterward found and the money recovered.
The Panama papers announce officially that the
Bolivian dollars not to be received in the gov
eminent offices there, and that the French FIVE
franc piece, the American, Sandman, Belgian,
Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian, and Chilean dollars
are to be received at the rate of ten reals.
The Spanish peteta, the French and Belgian
franc, are to be received for two reals, and the
American dime for one.
Captain Hunter, of the United States navy, left
Panama for Valparaiso in the steamer Bogota on
the 7th inst.
From South America.
We copy the following from an abstract in the
Panama Herald:
CHILE.-The Chilean Congress was opened on
the LIST of June by the President, Sr. Mont
Advices from the Straits of Magellan hold out
some hopes that Colonel Philips has not been muir
dered, on his exploring expedition into the interi-
or, is supposed, but that he is kept prisoner
by the savage Indians of the district.
The American ship Telegraph, fourteen days
out from Valparaiso, with cargo Of copper, has
put back leaky. On the Sd, when in latitude
as 3, she struck her keel during dark night up
on what the captain supposed to be water-logged
vessel
BoLIvIA.---We have received letter from La
Paz dated June 3. Owing to the unsettled state
of the country, and the blockade of :Cobija, (the
only Bolivian port intercourse is almost entirely
cut off with the country, and the post Office is not
considered safe medium Of communication, Us
letters are opened and read by the officials.
Belzu is said to be raising troops in all quarters
to meet the Peruvian army and contest is
looked for. 1t is impossible to say which party
will gain
Bolivia has hitherto beaten Peru, but the chances
said to be in favor Of the latter, owing to
Belzu course being unpopular with the Bolvians
generally.
The United States Minister is now the only re-
preventative of the diplomatic corps near the Bo-
livian government, all the other ministers having
been compelled to leave, from repeated and ag-
gravated insults offered them by Belzu- and his
minister, Bustillo.
PERU.--We have received Lima papers to the
25th.
Relative to the dispute between Peru and Boil
via, we learn that the former has seized Cobiia