Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-25


fact of his being the editor of that journal.
80. Mr.. J. G. Moore, late assistant editor
of the Courier u Enquirer, contradicts the
report that he is no more. 1t seems that he
tainted in the street and was reported dead
by the news writer's. He appeals from the
Coroner
FROM ASPINWALL, PERU AND CHILL.
The steam yacht North Star, Captain
Miner, arrived at New York on Monday
evening, having left Aspinwall on the
18th inst.
The Isthmus was dry and healthy, and
the roads in good order.
The Cyane arrived at Aspinwall on the
14th inst, al o'clock IN, in a passage
of twenty-nine hours from Carthagena,
and will receive at that port Lieut. Strain
and party, who were hourly expected
from Panama.
The latest intelligence from the party
was that Capt. Marshall, of II, B. NJ.
steamer Virago, had sent boats up the
river Chuguanague in search of them
News of the safety of Lieutenant Strain
first reached Capt. Uollins in Caledonia
Bay on the Doth ult., when he immedi-
ately dispatched runners to recall the
searching parties in the field looking after
the lost men, and returned to Aspinwall,
which he will leave for New York, upon
the arrival of Lieut.. Strain.
The Cyane left at Carthagena French
squadron of six sail, consisting of three
steam sloops, frigate tphigenia, and two
twenty gun briggs, who are there for the
purpose of enforcing claim of $50 900,
made by French subject for -four de-
stroyed by order of President Herrera at
Panama few years ago.
LATEST FROM PERU.
Dates are to March "A.
The revolutionists have taken Islay,
and removed the custom-house archives,
&C., to Arequipa.
The Callad Herald says that body of
the battalones nacionales, of Puno and
Cuzco, when on their way to attack Gen.
Castillo, revolted and returned to Tampa
in great disorder, losing half their force.
The same paper also says that General
Castillo, while on his march to Chuaui.
banda, was unaplc to pass the river
Mages, defended by 400 national troops
under command of Commandante Gomez
Florez
The following statement of deaths for
the month ending 18th inst, we take
from Ell Heraldo of the 22d.
In the Hospital of San Andreas, the
deaths were $50; discharged as cured,
SAT.
Hospital of Santa Anna-Deaths, 1O9:
discharged, 27l.
The above report shows an abatement
of the yellow fever from the preceding
month.
At Callao, seamen are very scarce at
forty dollars a month, two months ad-
vance, with every prospect of fifty or
sixty dollars being offered before the
close of summer. Seven or eight ships
are now waiting for crews at Callao.
On the 10th of March, the Hon. J.
Randolph Clay, United States Minister,
returned to Lima, from visit to Huacho,
where he had been on account of the
health Of himself and family.
The Office of the Cores de Lima was
broken into on the evening of March IL,
and the press, type, and other articles
belonging to the establishment were COM
pletely destroyed. The cause for the act
is not mentioned.
| A party of about twenty-five Amer.
cans were in Lima. endeavoring to char.
ter vessel for Huancho, from which
place they intended going by the mos,
feasible route to the Amazon, under the
guidance of MIR. Nelson Wade, under whose
guidance two other companies had gone
within the past three months.
The Z. S. sloop of war St. Mary
Capt. Bailey, arrived at Callao on thu
10th of March from Huacho.
LATEST FROM CHILL.
| A foreign club has been established il
| Valparaiso. Some ninety odd member.
have signed the articles. Price of ad
mission, 1874 SO.
Madame Biscaccianti is in Valparaiso
giving concerts. The Herald admires
her singing very much.
The United States frigate St. Lawrence
SO guns, has also arrived since the las
mail, and the British frigate President il
daily expected to return from Coeuimbo
The project Of railroad from Bueno
Ayres to Valparaiso is attracting mucl
attention in the latter city.