New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-27
THE. TRIBUNE.

N.vc,rrox OF THE RIVER AMAzoN.-ln refer
.r.e n, the account published few days since thai
cam KLArsy had discovered that the River Amazon
was nsvgsbie BY steamboats, OF light draughf irorn It's
mouth on the Atlantic to lingo. point but seven or
eisbt distant from Lima in Peru which but eight
mies from Calso the Pacific. the Boston Adrriisrr
ssys those seven eight days" are occupied In the
crossing Of the Andes mountains. The town OF Pasco,
which gives its name 70 This passage Of the mountains
y thirteen thousand feet above the or course the
navigation Of the river now opened Is Of no use as
commercial movement from sea TO sea, when sucn
portage IL involved al one end Of IL
The Spanish Journal which published this account Ia
called the Grenada Chronicle" !, cannot have been
frat pub shed there for ii clearly written in Quito
which 10 not In New Grenada but Ia the Republic Of
Ecuador The expedition. too ended The 23d Of
April last four months before this publication OF the Ore
NADIA Chronicle Our readers will snderstand ina, Cap
KiArsE has opened two different lines Of nangsuon
from the Atlantic. into Peru 70 the Eastern noe Of
the Apdes and into Ecuador 70 the Eastern rde Of
the same range Ecusdosis the Republic next Norm Of
Peru.
The same paper adds that the town Jabslnegs spoken
Of in the account Of Capt kLAUsEs expedition does
not appear the best maps which we nave CONSUMED
AZ II that only one steamer was used IN me haF
CATION Il is perhaps doubtful whether more tnan one
was ON the river. After the commander had crossed
the mountains little exsggeratOn would perhaps ad
vance the interests Of the Company IN s application.
for contract At Ecuador The distance Travelled By land
over the Andes ia Ecuador between the last point a.
tanned By the steamer and Quito, is between one and
two hundred mics.
The Amazon and It's branches have been before de
scended by from the Pacific but this is the first
account Of high navigation, or Of practicable
and comparatively easy passage up the river from th'
Atlantic the Pacific The following extract from az
article ON Brazil In the Revue des Deux MOndes, BY NJ
des Chavagnes French traveller In that country, gives
an account Of successful expeditions Of this kind
The success Of Capt kLAusE in ascending is none th'
less crafty ny We 10 doubt the sccoun
gwen Of his expedition excepting in the particular u
which we have alluded.
Translated from the Revue des DeuI Mondes-
Two officers Of the English navy have recently Gin Ju
IT, le44) arrived In the Amazon from Peru Their mar
rative has been published Lieutenant Smyth occupied
more than eight months in this difficult enterprise IL
Lrer instead Of departing from Lima To float down the
Guaaga Capt Klsuses route went by sea 70 Iruslo
thence 10 Balsa Puerto he followed the course OF the
Chaciguco and finished hs expedition in seven nonths.
Buffalo Com. Advertiser.
~ Kingston 70. c. was visited by a destructive
fire on the nth ultimo.
EY According 10 the Bangor Wing the potatoe
disease which prevails 10 such alarming extent N
England has comm sted to the herrtngs and othe
fsh.
~ A small boat containing three boys, wa
earned over the Hookset Falls ~ H. on Tuesday alter
noon last They were all drowned. They were the som
Of Mr. Whitney Of Hookset.