New-York daily tribune., 1849-02-21
BAooxLYs, Saturday, FEB. Il.

Ed. Tut.l
The Isthmus-The Bright SIDE Of the Picture.
Correspondence Of The Tribune
BAooKLYS, Saturday, Feb Il.
EDITOR Or THK Tribune Dear SE-ln your paper
Of this morning have ust read leter from Pan ana
over the signature of D II r and In the name Of AL
that is mercfu TO those wh have friends. gone or 20
ng across the .tbmus Of Daren beg you 10 give your
readers 80 opportunity Of seeing The other side or 1t
least another view Of Mr. D H. K picture had sup.
posed that hs style Of description monopoHzed 90
far As the lsthmus concerned By stephen Branch
correspondent Of the Herald, who must be 5ragci
Of the Manchsusen family, a. least ne Munchsuseu
OF the Branch family How any man st to travel or
having hall an eye axe such gross and 5abyisk
Misrepresentation Of the Ifihmus route to California
is more than can underssnd-unles indeed be IL IL
teres,ed In vessels going round tie Horn The writer
Of this crossed from Cbsgres 70 Panama and back
tween the ID and 9th Of January ast and by your
would place bis sexperence Of the route In juxtsposton
with ,he delinestions Of D. ii. K
Your vessel does anchor In an open roadsiead at
Chsgres, but the Crescent City $50 ton steamer.
lay there week wiihou, seeing anything Of storm
hurricane, cutting cable running or being driven on
rocks"
passed more than once from shp to boat, sni rc,
|
feet There is, generally, more or le.s swell on
aud you have to watch your chance OF stepping ln q
feat readily performed BY any young lady Of moderate
spunk though it may have bothered D. Il. r. 4
little Chsgres IS miserable looking place certainly
but the horde Of ssvsges mild courteous. q1ie,
people not much sharper at driving bargain or profit.
ing by circumstance than any Yankee" Of all.
Then for your trip up the river you must pay go to
-eQ f,- hoat-s mara Los ranoa F,u rrysf pa-
any such price unless you choose. The majority OF
the Crescentsr passengers ascended the river
average cost Of $40 per As for alternating be-
tween e burning sun and drenchiug rain -" sleeping
| in your canoe -" pesterous atmosphere -" three
days and three nighis 70 Cruces" SC. &c-ihese are
best answered By showing how little prudence fore
sight and common sense will prepare your mere log
TO carry you through them canoe large enough
for four persons (such the writer hired for his
Of the Chagres) will be abon 20 20 - feet in
length, feet beam, 10 70 y feet bowed over. and
matched with palm or cocoa nut leaves go a. thorough
y shed rain and keep of the aud IL should have
say three oarsmen and helrnsman There is floor
ia the bottom, protection from any wster that may
On this spread mat or two worth 30 cents TO
81 and on those place your blanket Overc0ats &e
and with carpet.bsg for pillow who ka0rs
hO 10 aUa would not snap bis inser tor bed Al the
Astor In exchange In such canoe ~ describe, be-
meath the ihatcb Of which there abundance Of
sitting room. with six eight inches spare above
our hats the writer with two companions. instead OF
being cut three days and three nights. reached Cor
gona Ia thirty eight hours and could have reached Cru
in forty. As to Cruces being bat Lille 10 advance
OF Chsgres Il d. II H. speaks OF pisces be is not far
out except that Cruces Is heathy-Chsgres not Cru
ces stands on high, dry ground-Chagres on a low
swsmpy site. II be speaks OF distance be il grossly in
error. There are about 90 miles ss the crow lies, be-
tween Chagres and Panama, something Ike f0rfy Of
which more rather than less lie between Cbagres and
| Cruces
And now for the road II is bad enough but crossed
from GOrgoD8 (he route them and returned ria
| Cruces and my horses neither failed within two
| hours" stumbled and threw" me " half a dozen
\ times nor crushed my feet" nor broke bis oWu
| legs," nor dashed out nv brains ID. II. X. may
speak feeling about that last but think he mistakes
natural lack for violent rddsBco But his haal touch
O. horrors head horrors accumulate ,, about the
ffightu precpices where ssngle step fatal IL the
outrageous piece OF Munchsusensm or egregiOut
gulbility that be imsg gined ID. H. r. and stephen
II Branch should get out something like "GULLIHLEs
Travels 10 CsifOTnis" Why, sir, HSfh0 route.
from Cruces GeorgOns 10 there sirRle point rtere
Jy slip from The f0Otpafh could fall ten ttd
he tried am really sorry TO hear that most OF the
400 passenger" had such a terrible time Those Of
| them whom saw iu Panama, however, never men
| toned H."
The Cruces and Panama road Ia not 'indescribsbly
than the most fertile imagination paint Il
s ry abOminsbly rough rugged, and tOilsome bride
path or Indian track through thicke,s and gulies
and mud holes, but Of danger there is Any man
who will take stsge-cosch from here TO Albany
through the Highlands before the river opens In the
Spring passes through four times the trouble and dh
Guilty, and forty times the danger that he will md
| the Panama road
| AZ to danger to heslth-fe-in crossing TO Panama
al any SEASON Of the year to healthy prudent aud TEN
perdte man il is TO nothing The whole lsthmus
being considered perfectly healthy region excepting
merely Chagres and lie immediate vicinity.
Yours, truly G.