DOTTINGS ON THE ROADSIDE. 
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CHAPTER I. 
ATTEMPTED NEGRO REVOLT AT PANAMA.—GENERAL OLARTE.—“ 
PETITION EROM A CONVICT BOY.-RAILROAD ACROSS THE 
ISTHMUS.—IMPROVEMENTS CAUSED BY IT.— EOREIGN ENTER¬ 
PRISE.-GOLD MINES OE BARBACOAS.-WAR BETWEEN SPAIN 
AND CHILI.—ANECDOTE OE ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
The cracked bells of Panama Cathedral had chimed 
half-past ten, and I was jnst thinking of transcribing 
a few dottings made for the ‘ Athenaeum ’ since leaving 
Southampton, when my musings were suddenly inter¬ 
rupted by the repeated discharge of musketry. Half- 
past ten is a late hour of night in this part of the 
world, when all good people are fast asleep; but the 
firing seemed to awaken everybody, and I soon 
learned what had happened. The dark forebodings 
of the local papers, that the negroes would attempt 
a rising, had been fulfilled. Their programme to 
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