... inhabitants for the visitation of the plague, have been the causes which have made one of the most beautiful islands in the Caribbean Sea a scene of unutterable woe and desolation. known i that upwards 5000 persons have died in Kingston and Spanish Town alone ...

... feet, which is almost unbroken to the Isthmus of Panama. This vast natural wall forms a harrier to the trade winds of the Caribbean Sea, as they cannot cross this ridge and flow into the Pacific. By means of this elevated land, which forms the isthmus ...

... warm air over the Gulf the cold air of the American continent ,s the means of diverting the stream of warm air from the Caribbean Sea to the eastward and thus giving easterly progression to eastwaia, . , TJ n ited States. The northers only time the west ...

... the Indian Omen, the spotted corals are plainly visible under twenty-ilve fathoms of water. The cryetaline claim= of the Caribbean sea excited the admiration of Columbus, who, in the pursuit of his great iliecovents, ever retained an open eye for the beauties ...

... been received at Baltimore, stating that the Dominican Government had taken forcible possession of the guano island in the Caribbean Sea, belonging to America. LATEST MARKETS. (By Electric Telegraph.) EDINBURGH SHEEP AND CATTLE MARKET, Jan. 9. Suekp.—The ...

... , from which, no doubt, privateers will be fitted out for the purpose preying upon the commerce the Gulf Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Fort l'ickens, junior, is a small outpost of defence or auxiliary Fort l'ickens, erected by Lieutenant Slemmer's orders ...

... PRIVATEERS. The Confederate privateer Retribution has bumf three Maine vessels. She encountered an unknown whaler in the Caribbean Sea, which showed fight, but was sunk with all on board. New York, March G (Afternoon).—The reports concerning the .-teaivier ...

... say that reliable information has reached ns to the effect that the crew were reached by koats from the Hannibal and the Caribbean. The Fire Queen, tug, waa said to have disappeared about the same time, and thenceforward the news and rumours of havoc came ...

... deep design, wrest from Britain Erin's lovely Isle ; Of mnrd'rous deeds beyond the rolling brine, And blood that stains the Caribbean soil. see disease with fatal sweep lay waste The herds and flocks that graze on hill and plain And who can stay the dread ...

... left rose a long range of forest hills, clothed in green and yellow leafage? while to the right rolled glittering waves tbe Caribbean sea. In sumptuously-furnished apartment of tbe house, two men whose bronzed, grizzly faces bore marks of pre™„r' r reclined ...

... Nicaragua from Costa-Rica to Realejo ; and as years roll on, the same want will be felt and a demand made from the shores of the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific, and feasible points will be found. The immigration has hitherto mainly come from the United States. Would ...

... survey of ground, • canal can easily be made between the Atlantic and the Pacific by way of the Lake of Nicaragua. From the Caribbean Sea ships could sail up the river San Juan de Sic. aragua for a hundred miles to the lake itself, uhich is forty miles wide ...