The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-06
INTELLIGENCE PROM HoNpuRAs AND GUATEMALA.

INTELLIGENCE PROM HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA.
The accounts from Belize are to the 18th ut.
The mott important intelligence We have Is the
GERS OF the precautionary party in 0uaten Ala said
be- composed II the old Spa nards-the alton Of
General Csrrrra and the choice Of q successor. The
Obse'ter and Gazette Of the I'd ut has the following
psrsgraph on the subject -
eve have dates from the city Of Guatemals to the
18th UT rom which we learn that Gen carrera had
re.gped the Presidency and left the city Ne xico
on the 18th. His adore Co the unry printed but
has not reached us Congress- was In session Don
Juan Antonio Martinez was President 1d interim of
the republic The democratic party are nov in
power. The city was quiet, and 1t hoped the
troops would not be permitted to enter The brother
Of General Carrera reported to have been shot
Az t'Rua"
We add ssys the Picoyune letter from our CORES
popdent at Belize but do not understa nd exactly what
he Gays OF affairs in Yucatan supposed The as
cendancy fully reestablished 1t may not be in the
BELIZE, Hon Sept IL, 1S4s.
Since my last nothing new has occurred here, Every
."..g remains in the same dull iuactive state ~.
thing from the Mosquito shore From Yucstan via
Bacalar hear of the continued success the Iu-
dams and there seems hardly room to hope for
anything in favor Of the whites Those Yucatecos
who in Belize suffering all the horrors of actual
starvation Such living pictures of death and disease
] never saw before. In fact, no language convey
correct idea of their TO straa-
ger. They chic fly live in what called here negro
houses but these negro houses Infinitely inferior
to the clean comfortable houses used for your slaves
They merely long sheds about ten twelve feet
wide, divided into square rooms by partition high
the caves, with door and window. Into these
rooms than twelve feet square. are hud-
died families of from three to fourteen Here they
have to eat and sleep. Their poverty is great that
they cannot get food even of the most miserable de-
scrpton, to satisfy their appetites; and then they
are compelled to drink well water, which is far
inferior to the stagnant pools found in swamps
In the driest Of times 1t Is always quite salt,
owing to the extreme lowness of the settlemen Mt
no part of which three feet above the Our
Inhabitants are doing much for their relief They
have appointed committee to visit and comfort the
destitute and provided hospital where the afflicted
can obtain medicine and me dical advice and attend
ance but all this will fall short of making them
Portable Many are dying daily and we fear that the
deaths will increase rather than diminish II any of
your pthropists want work field is here opened
for them in which they may be of ncalculabe bene-
t to these poor starving SICK and dying Yucatecos
AS there have been two vessels from Yzaba to your
oity You probably advised of the state of affairs
Guatemala of the arrest of Gen Pas the various
cesses of the discontented radicals of the Presidents
resignation his successor, &c 60 We are entertain
ing strong hopes of a settled state of affairs in
that country. Recently many of her mercha uts have
been at Belize, and they wont in days of Old
they buying goods and leaving their dollars and
doubloops instead.