The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06


COLON. April 4. 1885.
together with the force sent by the Para, will
be sufficient to open and guard the transit,
if supported by the two ships at Panama
Without such support an extra force of 500
men will be required. Everything is quiet at
Aspinwail, and all American property is as well
protected as my forcs will permit. have liz
officers and men shore My command is safe
and we'll. One foreigner was killed, so far as
known. There about hundred Colon
bian government troops here, holding
a large number of prisoners and render
ing no assistance in preserving order. The
railroad company is affording all possible relief
to refugees, and has sent many out on the line
OF the road. The transit remains closed. One
relief reached Panama last night at great risk.
having been stopped by the insurgents, and one
person forcibly removed The wires to Panama
are continually being cut"
Secretary Whitney has sent the following dis
patch to President Houston, of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company:
later dispatches indicate such condition of
things that have concluded to send 250 more
men tomorrow. Can you take them
A Man Who Thinks Barrios Is Not Dead.
New YORK, April ST. B.. Bunting late gem
eral of division and chief of artillery of Guate-
mala. says.
ance as q fact Of the report of the death OF Gen.
Barrios was killed precisely in the same man
ner In Salvador, during the war of 1871 e,
on paper Be sure that when the sword of Gen.
Barrios is found on the field OF battle, his right
hand will be found firmly grasping it.
AS Dr. Zoldivar is not at present
praeticing medicine, his certificate as
TO the death of General Barrios is not evidence
of the fact When General Barrios dies, Guate-
maa viii nave n loss TO mourn creates thsa has
han 70 hnr hafo Hicfo viii do
him more justice than is being done him now
The breeding Ground of Chngres Fever
New York Times. s
The burning of Aspnwall adds to the many
gloomy memories of this haunted spot the same
tragic interest which similar confagration be-
slowed ten years ago upon its sistertown, Panama.
A single journey between the two places will
suffice to show what terrific obstacles the con-
structors of the Isthmus railway had to overcome,
Manzanilla island, upon which Aspinwall stands,
lies so low thatthe great white ribs of the skele
ton lighthouse are visible long before the little
town is seen floating like o gay coored leaf upon
the shining. waters. Therailway to Panama, run
ming like. tram line down the main street,
passes. two and a half miles from the town, the
wooded slope of Monkey Hill" the local GENE
terry, already sown thick with graves. This end
less maze of swampland thicket, through which
las deserving sailors. know to their cost the
rough railway track forms the sole footpath, is
the chosen homo of the terrible 'Chagres
fever. which is saidsto have takena life for every
sleeper on this forty seven mile railroad.
The dark red pathways, fecking the rank
greenness like triekling blood; the foul. black
pools, half hidden by snaky mangreves that
strike their fibrous roots deep into the spongy
rottenness below: the matted thickets from
which wreaths of white mist stink sullenly
away like detected murderers, form CHASTITY
picture 1t is quite relief when the train
creeps, at length over the swift, brown stream
of the broad Chagres upon long iron bridge,
the breaking of which by the rebels, had it
been possible, would have effectually checked
the advance Of the government troops from
Panama A few aliigators peer out with horny
eyes from the thick greasy water, but the two
or three log cabins amid the wall of leaves on
the further shore are the sole token Of mans
presence.
The native town of Gorgono---a group of little
nests of cane and palm leaf-falls behind Oh the
left, while on the right rises bold ridge, scanned
with the black scars of unsightly ''clearings'
and heaped with the charred corpses o. fallen
trees. amid which one mighty ceiba stands like
the last warrior of a slaughtered tribe. Other
quaint little Indian villages-Tiger HILL Lion
Hill, Buena VISTA Mamie--are left behind one
by one. and at length Won reach the halfway
house of Matachin, from the cane huts of which
crowd of native women (thatched like their
own dwellings with huge straw hats) come with
tempting proffers of white rolls worthy of a Paris
baker, and coffee that might shame any restau-
rant in Vienna or Constantinople. From this
point onward your course is one endless Zigzag
among low sloping hills, one mass of matted
boughs from crown to base Indeed. SO closely
are you shut in on every side by these walls Of
dark foliage that not till within half mile of
the rocky height crowned by the gray. ramparts
and clustering houses of Panama do you at
length descry the broad sheen of the vast Pacific
outspread beneath the glory of the setting sun