The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-06-13
PANAMA, March 22d, 1S49.

ing passage to San Francisco. l have now
been upon the IsthmHs one month, and can
assure you that it has been long and tedious
one. Indeed, my progress, since left home,
has been marked by so many delays, and my
mind poisoned with so many fabrcations, which
in some cases required but an hour or day to-
aaiisPP1v"o, that M god fever has considerably
abatcd. A pulse. that at one time was up to
1870, has gradually fallen to 100, and coun
tenance that was once flushed with excite.
mcnt, has become languid and spritless. This,
in great measure, | attribute to the intense
and uniform heat Of the atmosphere, which so
completely destroys all vigor of body and mind,
as to render the patient careless of the present
and regardless of the future. That the relics
Of the old disease are still in me, liable, after
change Of climate, to revive and become as
violent and unmanage cable as ever, l have no
reason to doubt. or, in other words, that there
is gold in California, consider established be.
yond question. But have said enough on this
head.
My object more particularly in writing at
this time, is to correct some erroneous state.
ments with regard to the practicat:iity of this
route to california, and especially the transit
across this lsthmus. A New York Journal Of
Commerce, dated Feb. Sith, was handed me
yesterday, containing an article descriptive of
this rounte, which excited as much surprise as
contempt. horo, for the author of such base ia.
brlca.ions. can assure you there is no truth
III the Journals statement. They start with
a talsehood, stop half way with a fasehood, Ind
end with one; and did not believe them in tho
pay Of Aspinwall & Co., who are Interested in
whipping people into the belief that this is the
best route to California, might be NOR 9 choice
in the language l select to correct their state.
ments. The course adopted by these money
sharks is as dishonorable as it is inhuman and
treucherous. The article in question sta tes,
that the communication across the Isthmus is
easy, cheap, und rapid--that the steamer Orus
runs up TO Cruces, which is false, for she has
never yet run nearer than IS miles Of Gorgona,
and that is seven miles below Cruises; that the
road from Cruces to Panama is good, which is
not so, for it is not travelled on account Of its
difficulties, but on the contrary, the Gorgona
road, which is considered preferable, is used
altogether, and that is so bad, that it cripples
or sickensalmost every American that attempts
to walk over it; and that there are plenty OF
sailing vessels to take the people as fast as they
arrive in Panama, which is a notorious false
hood, FOR there are plenty Of persons here
who have been waiting for six weeks and two
months to get passage, and many of them
not able to get away, although they arrived
here with sufficient means to take them off,
had there been vessels. / have been here o yer
four weeks, and for no other reason than that
l cannot got a passage for neither love nor mo.
'noy. Public sentiment among the Americans
on this 1sthmus, is decidedly against the steam
ship line, for the knlvery they have practiced
upon the cmigrants; and in truth the indigna.
ton has become SO alarming and general. that
it is absolutely dangerous to say word in their
justification. They refuse to sell tickets in N.
York to 60 further than Chagres; yet, they 70.
present an English line of steamers running
10 Oregon from Panama, and an advantage with
their steamers on this side to those who have
taken passage with them from New York to
Chagres; all of which is sheer fabrication They
also represent the difficulties of crossing tho
lsthmus as trifing and little or no trouble or
delay in procuring passage on said vessels to
San, Francisco; allof which is sheer fabrca ton.
There is no English line Of steamers here, no
advantage in taking steamship from N. York
or New Orleans without q through ticket, eve.
~ conceivable obstacle to an easy, cheap, or
rapid transit across the Isthmus, and no craft
Of any description to take some 1000 or $500
persons from this 10 California. But four sail
vessels have left this port for California within
five months, and one Of these was little schoon.
er forty tons. which has boen lying in this har-
Dor for years as q condemned vessel. She was
partially fitted up, and sent off with fifty pas
sengcrs.
Much solicitudo is felt by the Americans
here for their countrymen on board that ves.
sel, Il il confidently predicted they will new.