The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-03
Spanish America.
Colrespondence National Press to the Star.

Correspondence National Press to the Star.
PANAMA, July %.
Columbia-Since last advices Panama has
been in fervent state of excitement owing
to the expected arrival of three hundred
men belonging to the National forces tc
garrison this place. The State Government
has moved all the firearms and ammunition
| that were in the State Barracks into the Ci J
proper, and established three cuartels on
the main street, near the railroad station
The general opinion is that they are de er
mined 10 prevent the National troops enter
ing the city, when there will be blood shed
and a fearful sacrifice of life. The object
of the present movement on the part of The
State authorities has been made public.
The term to serve as President OF
the Columbian Union is two
years. General Truiillo, the present
incumbent, was inaugurated President in
April last. His term expires the 31st of
March, $780, During this time the elections
must be held at least one year previous 10
the Inauguration of the new President. DR..
Rafael Nunez who aspired as the principal
opposition candidate to General Trujillo,
and was defeated in the election, is again a
candidate. The present State Government
deposed Nunez in the late election, and
having great lnllueICe HOW III tlie NdDlnet
at Bogota, he has been charged as the prin-
cipal agent for forwarding national troops
on the Isthmus who are sent here with the
express purpose of overthrowing the pres
ent Government This is the state of affairs
at present and it is not improbable that Sc
rious trouble will follow. There are at pres
eht three hundred men under arms, and the
militia force can be raised to four hundred
or five hundred men, all told. DR.. Rafael
Nunez is expected here in a few days from
Carthagenia.
Peru-Almost all the members of the
Peruvian Congress have arrived in Lima.
The new Cabinet has been we'll received and
is undoubtedly popular. No changes in the
Government policy have been made, and
until Congress meets and the ministers have
presented their reports, no idea can be
formed as to the changes they mediate pro-
posing.
Deplorable reports are received of the
sanitary condition of the laborers on the
Madeira & Mamora Railroad. A most vio-
lent fever had broken out and was carrying
off numbers daily, whilst medical attend
ance was scarce and hospital arrangements
poor. The fever is reported to be of the
same type as that which ragged in Panama
during the construction of the Inter-Ocean
Railroad.
A letter from Cochabamba, Bolivia, says
the pestilence is sweeping off the inhab-
itants and famine is threatened. In the
smallest curacy department six hundred
bodies have been buried, while in Sipesipe
four thousand deaths have occurred, and
intermens daily augment in number.
The fields are desolated, crops remain un-
gathered, unclaimed cattle roam in all di-
rections, almost all the dwellings were
abandoned, and all those which are in
habited are so many scenes Of death and
disease Hundreds of children remain un-
cared for and sustain their lives by catch
ing and eating grasshoppers. Many bodies,
in some instances those OF entire families,
remain unin erred because the grave diggers
are not sufficient in numbers to execute
their painful duty.
Ecuador-Advices from the south report
the loss, between Sebastiana and Point
Corona, through stress of weather, of the
British ship Royal Don. No lives were
lost.