The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-16

OF the ramparts, which are bomb proof No ose,
At distance, can form much conception of the
cost and extent OF these ramparts. A few brass
and iron "A and 36pOunders are the only relies Of
their armament.
The walk Is truly beautiful and exhirating at
early twilight, when the burning sun 10 gone, and
when, especially az on last evening, the glorious
full moon was emerging with uncommon splen-
dor from the far horizon OF tranquil sea. The
walls anu ramparts enclose some one hundred
acres. just run fifty feet wall through Wall
in the olden t'me), with ramparts seventy feet
high and fifty feet wide, from Rector street, down
Washington street, around the Battery, down
South street 10 Wall street, with sublerranean
s6 Founders, faciag the North and East rivers and
the islands, and you can Term perfect idea of
P,nama, keeping steadily In the eye the ruins
after the great fires OF '36 and '46. The compare
portions OF the entertainments are one hundred
feet wide, and, In New York, would take In Tri.
nifty Church, City Hotel, &c, to the North and
East rivers, water from both filing the entrench.
ments, as water from the Pacific fills The entrench-
ments here on both sides OF the CITY. Tals is the
best comparison can make, and have thus SIM
pllfed il. SO that the humbesI minds can COM
Prebend 1t. shall be happy If have succeeded
magni6cence Of New Panama, what, indeed,
must be the wonders of Old Panama, few miles
distant from which the old Buccaneers drove tae
old Spaniaris TO this place. fear shall not have
New Panama, where Pizarfo, the scourge,
and the great and good Bolivar, the deliver Of his
county, once fourished.
We shall have religious worship to day at the
Custom House or Governors House, which the
emigranis will attend, an account Of which I
shall transmit.
l statee IN one of my letters that the English
got some $6,G00,0O0 per annum through the
ls'hmus. II Is infately more; and the treasure
she gets annually from Peru, Chill, &c, trans
ported through the lsthmus Is Incredible; 00O 900
have passed through Panama since have been
here. The true operations OF England In this part
of the world about to burst, Tor the first time,
upon Chistendom, and il Christian nations do
not open their eyes with amazement, will ac-
knowledge myself greatly mistaken: WEen have
got up In the colder latitudes, and ii am myself
not TOO much absorbed In the love and acquisition
OF gold, will make revelations OF England's one
rations on the Pacific coast that will be of con.
siderable interest and importance to the Amerl-
can government at least, and, perhaps, to other
nations The theme is great one, and the wea-
ther little to warm In the equator to discuss 1t
with true fidelity.
group of lovely little children have just passed
my window, followed by their servants A pas
senger just entered my apartment, who gays that
while coming up the Chagres, his boatman fas-
In the shades OF evening, who had not been gone
long when ne saw with terror the hideous jaws Of
an immense alligator entering his canoe, when
he, as last as possible, crawed out of the other
end OF the canoe, and ran for his Life up to the hut
whittier his boalman had gone, with the alligator
In hot pursuit, which nearly caught HIM by the tail
OF his coat. he natives Of the hut, and the pas
senger, alter closing the door upon the alligator,
fled to the beams OF The Tut, where they bravely
hurled torrent OF dehance at the alligator, who,
after Some hours, went ms way. There are turkey
buzzards IN countless thousands, lowering over the
city, which greatly alarm the natives. They are
unaccountable. Such locks never were before
seen. The natives are predicting every thing hor-
rible, from their appearance in such numbers, al
most darkening the air like dark cloud, with
their unwelcome presence. Some OF the intelli-
gent natives prognosticate famine, others extra
ordinary heat thermometer now about 1907 and
other equally fatal calaG tiles. So we must be
prepared tor the worst. But / do not fear much
evil from the presence of large numbers OF turkey
thing in the form OF superstition.
Truly, &c 8. H. BRANCH.