The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-08

lorna.
l can give you no information as TO the
overland route through Mexico. At San Bias
and Mazatlsn ! have been more than once
They are both sckly-San Bias very much 80;
and being places Of no commercial importance,
you would, ON your arrival there, be entirely de-
pendent ON the steamers coming up from Panama
| to take you away. The land route Is entirely out
| Of the question. You would have to cross desert
Ofsome extent, and subject yourself to robberes
and violence on the way. II you succeeded in
getting q Mexican coaster to take you up, and
could make up your mind to put up with the filth
and heat you must encounter In such q convey
! ance, you would then have to work against head
| wind. which blows down the coast ten months In
| the year; and with current setting In the same
| direction, il Is quite impossible for. sailing
vessel to make Roadway without stretching out to
sea to 40 great distance as from San Bias to San
Francisco IL is about the last route that should
have been in the bay of Panama month at
time, and have crossed and re.crOssed the
isthmus, the sickness of which has been much
exaggerated. The badness Of the roads
| der the direction OF the British Mail Steam Com
Pany, two hundred men, and have no doubt that
in two months wheel vehicles will be able to run.
Panama is considered as healthy place as any
You possess all the lights that do as to the
actual existence of the cholera there. II it does
|
course to pursue. The climate Is moist aud hot,
and it It gets foothold there, It must prove very
fatal But, barring cholera, think the trip across
the lsthmus as safe, II not quite DO comfortable,
| as from New York 10 Albany.
The trip from Panama to San Francisco in a
steamer r, would be speedy and agreeable; but in
| sailing vessel the most tedious In the world,
as the wind is light, and what there is Of it, al
ways ahead to vessels bound up. l have been
eighty.nine days making the passage, ia fast
sailing ship. The distance 10 800 miles. and
having to beat the entire way, you must SAIL at
to San H. Fi.ncisco Vessel: fieqa . s maRss
the passage from New York to Valparaiso In less
time than from Valparaiso to San Francisco.
The dangers OF the Horn are IN the imagination
far wind, a good vessel would run into warm
weather, and from thence to California, would
hardly encounter as much bad weather as from
warmest months at Cape Horn are January, Feb
ruary and March, but they are very stormy. The
most most favorable for going round q through the
Straits are April, May and June. THIS is nj, e1-
which is compiled from the most reliable autho.
rites
In consequence Of westerly winds, and currents
setting from the Pacific to the Atlantic, a sailing
vessel must stand to the south Of Cape Horn, to
about or 10 degrees, to enable her to double it.
The average passage of a ship from New York to
San Francisco, y about six and halt months, and
run over it, This season Of the year, you might
reaSonably calculate on fair winds nearly the whole
distance TO Cape Horn, and thence to within two
| or three degrees OF Panama, and vessels sailing
now would probably tsll within the average.
The Panama steamer have seen, and consider
II as safe boat "a there is afloat. She is remark
ably strong and we'll built, and In the accident she
met with, which threw her upon her sea qualities
altogether, proved that she was capable Of taking
care of herself in all emergencies, and should not
| therefore deter you from going in her.
The distance to San Francisco, via Straits OF
~ mil 4
| ste amer, such as the Panama, with sails and
| steam, should average $50 miles per day, which
| would put her in San Francisco In TO days, sup
posing that she ran through without stopping; but
40 she must stop for fuel at Rio, Valparaiso, and
Panama, you might add IL days detention at these
polnts-6days at each-makipg the voyage in 10
but it should be recOllected that she passe the
Horn In the most unfavorable season OF the year,
and encountered head winds: The ports ia South
Amenca are well worth visiting, and the passage
interesting. and you avoid by it all Of the bad
! weather Of the dreaded Cape Horn. The worst
weather you would encounter in the whole voyage
would be In the two days you are running off our
coast. Hoping that your readers may profit by my
experience, 1 am yours, &c.
BosroN, April l, ls49.
Statistics of Ra,Aoads-7Ae L<gislatwe--T,al of
Crafs-Atsrs. Ra~tosl + Custi~g.
Ieuclose to you the report of the Committee on
Railways and Canals for the past year II in.
cludes the special reports Of all the railway COM
panies to their respective shareholders, and much
valuable statistical information concerning this
great branch Of our State and national policy.
The appendix contains a digest OF the different
acts OF the legislature creating these corporat ons,
amount of capital DC. &C.; the whole furnishinR
| more perfect and satisfactory "bird'seye" view
of this subject than any document eyer published
IN this State. i has been prepared with much
labor by Mr.. Wentworth, Of the Senate, who is
emlnenfy entitled to tho thanks Of those who are
| interested In railway Investments.
| It 10 understood here that our Collector "waks
the plank on or about the first of May. Mr..
Greely IS said to stand number one for the success
sion, Mr. Webster Is TO be District Attorney.
| thereby giving the "cold shoulder" on the part
rivals, who long since have deemed the Prise
"their own
Our Legislature drags Its slow length along, &C.
al Ssse
eIgetic and commanding leader, who has sSfi-
cent intellectual qualifications and business train
ing (the essential qualities Of a parliamentary
leader) to press business through popular branch
| in it's proper time. This remark Is applicable to
| other State legislatures as 10 our own.
The trial of Crate, one OF the owners of the ship
Franklin, Is to take place early the present enth,
class OF )" hard pressed men, in policies of insur
ance. Much interest centres in the result of this
cause.
The story told by some of your New York con.
temporaries, that Messrs. Rantoul d. Cushing are
intending to take up q residence in Minnesota, 10
without any foundation.
| WOLF IN THE FoLD.-Another of those fagtious
| affairs which brings 30 much unjust reproach
upon religion, has recently occurred near Rome,
that Mrs. Woolcon, being, as she supposed,
upon her death bed, called her husband TO her
| bedside and confessed to HIM that she had long
been cnninally intimate with Elder Scofeld,"
the pastor Of Presbyterian church In the vicinity,
and married man, as well a. munster Of God.
The husband charged the clergyman with the
erime, and he confessed It. Subsequently, 1t ap-
ton had been seduced by him. He fed from