The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-07
GoRaoNA, (S.A.,) Jan. 8, 1919.
Au0tber Account of the Efh1nass

Another Account of the kthmus.
We have now arrived forty miles up the river
Chagres, from the town of the same name. Diff
cuties of an unexpected nature have lmpeded our
progress at every step. A want of the common
necessaries of life scarcity of the means of con-
veyance, and an ignorance of the language, have
been evils almost insurmountable. God knows
what they who follow alter may experience; but
unless they come we'll provsioned, starvation mus
ensue. A famine which visited this part of the
country last year, has rendered almost impossible
even for the natives, (who live upon what white
maj would starve uponO to gam scanty subsis-
tence. DO, for the cause OF humanity, make
known (at least among our friends) the distress
which must eventually follow, unless they make
provision Tor themselves before starting. They
Will need, at least months bounty, as they may
be detained thai time, perhaps longer. | will write
more full account when | have time. am wri-
ing In hut, with a cocoa nut for lamp. My
kindest regard to all. Yours, truly.
ADvICEs FROM PANAMA, VIA ENGLAND. Our
advices from Panama are to the 22d of November.
There was at that place Her MaJesys schooner
Cocatrice, with stores and provisions for the
yeying ships Herald and Pandora the first from
the edge OF the ice, where she had been in search
OF Sir John Franklin and his patty the other
from Vancouver's Island and the Sanwich Islands
These vessels were expected at Panama momen-
tarily. The California, the first of the American
and San Francisco In California, was expected to
arrive about the beginning C! January, and would
take the mails for the northwest coast, to be
brought to Chagres by the first of another new line
OF steamers between New York and that port
Panama would, therefore, become the central
point in the Pacific, whence would depart the
steamers to the south as far as Valparaiso and to
the north up to Oregon, as from San Francisco
there was 10 be a branch to the Sandwich Isles
and China, put on foot by the parties running the
mn i'm IN he I'd he tn
the Cruces road were to commence on the LIST Of
January; the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
having advanced the government of New Granada
iuRds sufficient tor the purpose the latter provid
ing corps OF 200 sappers to do the work. The
seaports on the lsthmus are free, and vessels could
60 into, and remain in them, free OF tonnage dues
The duties on all goods imported were reduced to
the nominal rate of 5-100ths of a real per ID.
weight, or less than one per cent. the value OF
an assorted cargo. The only exception to that
rate was on spirits, on which duty of III reals per
dezen was imposed. Sugar, rum, cotton, cocoa,
and tobacco, were not permitted TO pass in transit
Cigars could only be imported at the high duty OF
$40 dollars per 81 ,000 With these advantages of
situation and extensive means OF communication
divergng from a central point, there appeared to
be fair opening for business In Panama.-Lon.
don Times, Jan. 3.
A NEW MOUNTAIN PAss.-A Texan hunter-one
OF those wild, rowing characters peculiar to the
unsettled wilderness of the West and South
gives the following account of new pass through
the great chains OF mountains which traverse the
continent He has suggested a new route for a
military road or a railroad across the continent,
that is perhaps entitled to as much consideration
as the celebrated project of Mr.. Whitney. He
state that there Is broad pass between the vast
ranges of the Anahuac Mountains on the south and
the Rocky Mountains or Cordilleras OF the north,
that extends quite across the continent, from the
valley OF the Rio Grande to the valley of the Rio
Hiaqui. This pass, he says, resembles the SOUTH
west pass discovered by Fremont, and the access
to the summit of the table lands OF Mexico is the re
SO gradual, that it appears like an extended plain
and carriages and loaded wagons can pass from
the valley Of the Rio Grande to the valley of the
HiaquI as easily as they can pass over the undu-
lating praines Of Western Texas. The distance
from one valley to the other he estimates at onlv
five hundred miles THIS pass, he says, about in
the latitude Of wenty.nine degrees. extends be-
Houston (7eraO Telegraph, Jan. 2.
YUcATAN:-We have advlces from Bacalar, and
inf fbo III - L..