The Shasta courier., 1855-10-27
s SHASTA. CAL, SATURDAY OCTOBER 27, 1855
Niearagua.

As everything relating to this Country is a,
present possessed Of unusual interest we transfe,
to our columns the following extracts, culled by
8. F. Herald: sa
He says that when the name Of this country
! is mentioned, persons are apt to associate il
with everything tropical. Imagination runs
along low creeping rivers with green waters
covered with the slime from rank vegetation
that overhangs and covers their banks, while
f9tid air steals through The dense forests with the
direst fever in it's breath low swamps. where
upon each tufi may be seen a coiled reptile, with
death in its fang. or monstrous lizard, purple
with suction. All this is wrong it may do for
Africa or the East Indies but Central America is
not so.-It is true there are dense forests cover
ed with an eternal verdure and an eternal bloom
preitier even than our carefully nnrsed plants,
and as full and perfect as nature can make alone
andlunattended. A lady's hot house would sicken
at the presence of one flower large as the f1ow-
er-pot which bore plant and all. A hot-house
would look insignificant compared to the banks
of lake festooned with flowers of crimson and
purple for thousand feet, and the most luxuri-
oIs bath would not be half so inviting as the
crystal waters that there invite.
Nicaragua has history rich with themes for
the physiologist aud antiquarian. At every
point Nicaragua gives evidence of having been
a popnous and thriving country; its old church
es, its old towns and cities; its old aqueducts
and watts. now overgrown with trees and vines.
and its old plantations mouldering to decay, the
bounds only being known by that imperishrble
fence that never dies, which stands 10 make
mockery of the slo,h and idlcness of those who
possessed the land.
The products of the soil are of the most vari-
ed and valuable kind. Nicaragua, (says the
writer above alluded toy is capable of produc-
ing yearly. with what land is now cleared. ten
millions OF bushels of corn, twelve thousand ce-
rooms OF indigo twenty thousand sacks of coffee,
ten thousand ceroons of cocoa, (thc best in the
WORLDLY cargoes of sugar, rice, starch rosewood,
dyewoods. medicines. poisons, besides fruits in
Vulnerable, and herbs and plants uncounted,
medicinal streams and rivers, and mines of gold,
silver. patlna OPAL copper, iron, coal, lead ul-
ira marine and precious stones.
In all the State there is not a richer depart.
ment than Rivas. Saint George and surround
ing Pueblos; every space occupied with fruits
OF every description. The main feature of which
is the noble mango, the prettiest tree. in the
writers's estimation. en- earth. For miles round
every acre or two is occupied by its house and
its varieties Of fruits and flowers: and although
seeming poverty snd ideness is below, nature
has given out her luxuriant stores above.
The town of Rivas is built over the ruins of
an older town. 1t is pleasantly situated on
commanding elevation, near the lake, and al
ways has pleasant breeze stirring through the
streets.
Birds Of brightest plumage inhabit the cocoa
trees that thrive uxuriantly throughout the
State, and the air is filed with melodies all day
long.
"The leafnever dies in the still blooming bow
And the bee banguets on through whole year
of flowers"