Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-09-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
Letter iron, Aspinwall.

rCyrrespondeace Of the Richmond Enquirer
AsPiHwALL, New GRANADA,
September 4th, 1860.
Vanderbilt steamer (the North STAR ar
rived on the evening Of the 18th ult., with $50
passengers. They passed over the road on the
following morning. and lef! Panama FOR San
Francisco on the 3u!h.
The rams continue, and that great monster,
Death, still stalks among US. Mr.. Burton,
hurbvr master, and Mr.. John Davis, clerk in
the freight depot, died on the 2d inst, OF that
we'll knpwn disease, .Aspinwail fever. Almost
every one about town appears frightened and
m'-ernp:e. and ann. at present, in doubt, If the
re'arn ii the Japanese, the arrival OF the Great
E,,,rrn. nr passing suite OF . live Prince, would
s..r;, To- r,v- their spirits q bAroiuetrichi rou>c.
W. are in ii passive state here; yet the revolu-
ton is still in being. and progressing in the
various STATES Of this Republic; and if | d" not
write the particulars now, you must not be
surprised to read many bloody relations Of
these Sanguinary factions.
Efforts are being made by tho Panama Rail
road faction to crush, in It's birth. the new
,r,,>,t. VIA Ch;riqai. They are well acare Of
tn. f,c, Of their having fixed the terminus OF
the Pacific Railroad in the mos! sickiy location
upon the whole coast that they are without 4
harbor, without q wharf. where q single ship
can lie in sa!e,y-without water, proper build
inss, comforts or population; anu, therefore,
they know, should the Chiriqni transit be
oyerei, il must be u success. and leave them,
q, the French bullet did Sir John Moore, 'alone
in his yi,rv!' | wish that it may, for they
have pursued such Il selfish, nigga.dly policy
upon the ~IstnnnS, since their base monopoly
has been in existence, as to cStrange all earthly
hearts, and make the angels weep.
The Br.rukl,u has arrived ut ChiriquI La
COON with the Surveying party, and &C.
cnmpanied by Shepherd, as the Pioneer, is
already some distance upon the Ioao towards
DIv,l. rn-ir track lies over the gold qua.
ca>," TT tie graves Of the rich and most an
cient Indians cf the Department Of Chiriqui.
And they may strike the mines Of precious
metal, as we'll us carbon, in their transit to the
Pacific.
The British gun-boat Gladiator, came in on
the morning of the Sd, for coal. She has been
relieved from the waters OF San Juan by the
arrival Ct the Racer. The Gladiator left on the
same evening for Port Royal, to make her re.
port to the Almlral of the West India Station.
They report Grey,own as being in great dis
trcss Tor the actual necessities Of life, and the
negro population in a state bordering upon in
surrectlou. There Is nothing ieit lot lnem &c
steal, the whites cannot support them, and the
English are slow about returning such a vile
pack again to Jamaica to fill their prisons.-
They were never known to work, and what
will become OF them Heaven only knows, in the
preSrut puri,anical state OF corrupt legislation.
The Greascrs have not seen Walker yet
They believe he was at Ruatan, and that the
Britlsh-their very good friends and neighborS
had taken care OF HIM and sent him back again
to the States from whence he came. Business
throughout the republic Of Nicaragua is said to
b. entirely siasralcd since the ru,nor Of tn.
coming OF the fllbusterS. The whereabouts o.
the little gray.cycd ,nau" is Il mystery still.
The ste inner has been telegraphed as having
arrived a, Panama. so the passengers will SOON
b. IN town, ready to re embark on board Of the
North Star. which steamer leaves at 8 P. NJ,
for NV York, with California passengers,
mail. &C.