PANAMA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1869, 16 May 1863, Page 5

PANAMA.

We (Herald) have news to the 10th ot January, via California. On the morning of the 261h December, at half-past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in Aspinwall, which destroyed, in buildings, goods and other property, tvbout 20,000 dollars. It took the whole of the street fronting on the sea, from and including the railroad company's brick offices to the northward, to the extreme end of the town southward, opposite to the Vanderbilt steam-ship wharf, and including all the buildings on the four sides of the square, forty-two in number. The railroad company's scale house, and six or eight cars, loaded and empty, on the tvack, were also burned. A great deal of property was stolen and carried off, principally by negroes. The negroes and sailors, after the fire had burned itself out, at' 2 p.m., (for we hare no engines), became very drunkand dangerouSjbut the timely arriral from Panama of seventy regular troops, and twenty United States marines, under Lieutenant Brown preented any surious rows.