The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

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P c „ . -1 Z 'VIZ TVS. qo ka • A $ 'a 1855 -...,_____ Panama the -402,4 : CO2 `Account of 10¢11),;`17,°1' th e Ci t • ma and *Pin" the rl4 Sket 7 Ceti of Pana h racier on &T4ethlke h e nce of Lif e and C a 440 W 8. 41 Robert Tomes. I'l l • a ki Co. e l , tollve -uPortanee f Londonmode f : 114; Yaace betweeu4o direct and eas?'„. G u lf of k eli le2) , hag b eer( 1., the pacific and _tuu t eeia'tg °II; and no "1g acknowledged and com ore than )tit,3 gUrY and a ), 1C- , after the lapse of m ce IA qrst 1-1„;„,- golf f., . its importance As t L---.4Led ‘ o ln. the time have been ' O 4 , ed, an so out, serious measures out, r , llter 0 8e o f c° ktl 141341 'P Ille °f them have been carried m_ s'Ne % 40 4. rils effecting the necessary ) 4;., its 0 , 4 • The th'a Ah, ' %ill to the railway Work now under consideration elv Wean .g great of th i k . at i, eOterprise has sought The cost kil t ," tre ht ,ellaas been so long felt. forty-eight project to supply b y dq:. t il leo 'lvay, Which is hNI ; tth, h seven millions . yti ) /et tb 48 been about about of p le f its , . rgt(tgb4 t‘Qt Oractical utility is greatly on the 'ais il k "lidt, t4t its present terminus, the coast. marred ild,tllsattti°a of a bout two miles and ~- ' 4 14 ,, t 0 Of goo -I,e Journey, dilatory, so " 44 :"8; 4hga, are found to be so nearly operate and t f h r e om loading Iti stel •-4 so ie I),_ 'No, expensive, i . I. would .. - ` , 04 ..,,, -4 to traffic which u er . the it. tantarbo These unhappy men, we are informed, were only had recourse to after all other resources had failed, and in their miseries we may trace a picture, gloomy enough, though not exaggerated, of the sad condition and fatal sufferings which beset and struck down the other labourers who had been employed and had perished on the work. Under the pressure of such difficulties, it is matter for surprise that the undertaking was completed at all, and its completion must be regarded as highly com plimentary to the genius and enterprise of America. That it is not likely to prove suffi ciently remunerative for the outlay incurred in making, and the heavy cost of working and management, is a mat ter which all must learn with regret, although scarcely with surprise. The cost of shipping and unshipping at each side of the isthmus goods which are necessarily, in the first instance, carried a long distance from their place of export , is so g reat as to seriously interfere with the value of the route as a means of commercial en terprise. In such a situation, the true mode of transit is one which was first suggested at the end of the seventeenth century, and has within the last few years been again brought earnestly into public notice. That is a ship-canal of sufficient width and depth to allow vessels of the first-class free navigation across the isthmus. This great project was first suggested in 1694, by the celebrated Paterson, an eminent Scotch merchant, who formed the bold project of cutting a canal through the isthmus at Darien. In 1697, he had so far succeeded in his scheme that the Darien Company, as it was called, was b fu e l e l ny settledorganised, and ont h a e spot, ot, colony o still known n S o c w o n t chm asE e n c 0 had ses, or Scotch Town. So sanguine of success was Paterson in this great undertaking, and so fully was he satisfied of its importance, that he called Darien " the door of the seas and the keys of the universe." His company was for the purpose of carrying on trade between the two hemispheres, and so great was its success in three years as to excite the jealousy and provoke the most power ful opposition from English companies trading to America. Yielding to the representations of the latter, King 'William 111. threw every obstacle in the way of the Scottish company, and under the joint influence of the government and the English mercantile world, the Spaniards and Dutch were stimulated to expel the Scotch settlers from the land which they had purchased from the abo rigines on the pretence that it was Dutch and Spanish property. The result was utter ruin to the Scotch company, and an entire abandonment of the projected canal. That it would have been eminently useful, if carried into effect, is now conceded on all bands ; and, singular enough, the project has been again revived, and once more by a Scotchman. Dr. Cullen, who has resided many years in the country, and explored the whole of the territory between sea and sea, revisited this country about two years ago for the purpose 'of forming a company to have the canal exe cuted. In this project he has been cor dially seconded by Sir Charles Fox, of Fox, Henderson and Co., and at this moment parties are actually engaged in making a survey of the proposed canal ; a partial survey having been previously made by Mr. Lionel Gisborne, C.E., of Derbyshire, whose preliminary report recom- - - AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, The account of the work given by Mr. Tomes is interesting as a record of persevering ingenuity, ba c ked by no inconsiderable skill in overcoming obstacles, and conquering difficulties which is highly creditable to the enterprise of the United States. Among these difficulties, those :arising from the effects of a pestilent atmosphere were found to be the most serious and repressing. The extent and nature of these difficulties, in pre venting the accession of labourers, may be gathered in some degree from the annexed ac count of the melancholy fate of CHINESE LABOURERS. A ship arrived, and landed on the Isthmus some eight hundred, after a fair voyage from Hong Kong where these poor devils of the Flowery Kingdom had unwittingly sold themselves to the service of the railroad, perfectly ignorant of the country whither they were going, and of the trials which awaited them. The voyage was tolerably prosperous, and the Chinese bore its fatigues and sufferings with great patience, cheered by the prospects of reaching the foreign land, whither they had been te m pt e d by t h e glowing descriptions of those traffickers in human life, who had so liberally promised them wealth and happiness. Sixteen died on the passage, and were thrown into the sea. No sooner had the eight hundred survivors landed, than thirty-two of the number were struck down prostrate by sickness; and in less than a week afterwards, eighty more laid by their side. The interpreters who accom panied them attributed this rapid prostration to the want of their habitual opium. This drug was then distributed among them, and with the good effect of so far stimulating their energies, that two-thirds of the sick arose again from their beds, and began to labour. A Maine opium law, however, was soon promulgated on the score of the immo rali tyof itie administeringhopedto the t e xpn osopernicious ach, habit, and however,without. was regard, no inconsiderable item, since the daily quota of each Chi n ese amounted to fifteen grains, at the cost of at least fifteen cents. Whether it was owing to the deprivation of their habitual stimulus, or the malignant effects of the climate, or home-sickness, or disappointment, in a few 'weeks there was hardly one out of the eight handred Chinese who was not prostrate and unfit to labour. The poor sufferers let the pick and the shovel fall from their hands, and yielded themselves up to the agony of despair. They now gladly welcomed death, and impatiently awaited their turn in the ranks which were falling before the pesti lence. The havoc of disease went on, and would have done its work in time ; but as it was sometimes merciful, and spared a life, and was deliberate, though deadly, the despairing Chinese could wait no longer : he hastily seized the hands of death, and voluntarily sought destruc tion in its grasp. Hundreds destroyed themselves, and showed, in their various modes of suicide, the characteristic Chinese ingenuity. Some deliberately lighted their pipes, and sat themselves down upon the shore of the sea, and awaited the rising of the tide—grimly resolved to die-- and sat and sat, silent and unmoved as a storm-beaten rock, as wave arose above wave, until they sank into the depths of eternity. Some bargained with their companions for death—giving their all to the friendly hand which, with a kindly touch of the trigger, would scatter their brains, and hasten their doom. Some hung themselves to the tall trees by their hair, and some twisted their queues about their necks, with a deliberate coil after coil, until their faces blackened, their eye-balls started out, their , tongues protruded, and death relieved their agony. Some cut ugly, crutch-shaped sticks, sharpened the ends to a point, and thrust their necks upon them until they were pierced through and through, and thus mangled, yielded up life in a torrent of blood. Some took great stones into their hands, and leaped into the depths of the nearest river, and clung, with resolute hold, to the weight which sunk them, gurgling in the agonies of drowning, to the bottom, until death loosened their grasp, and floated them to the surface, lifeless bodies. Some starved themselves to death —refusing either to eat or drink. Some impaled them selves upon their instruments of labour —and thus, in a few weeks after their arrival, there were but scarce two hundred Chinese left of the whole number. This miser able remnant of poor, heart-sick exiles, prostrate from the effects of the climate, and bent on death, being useless for labour, were sent to Jamaica, where they have ever since lingered out a miserable beggar's life.