The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-02-07

ton Is employed. The mouth Of the river Guasa.
cualco situated in N latitude l8degees, and of
over twelve feet of water. The river Is Ravigable
10 ocean steamers some twenty miles, to Mlnatit-
Ian, town the left bank of the river, IN N. lati
tude IL degrees so minutes, and Is distant fro"'
New oreans about 800 miles, cou., ~ siutv any.
Of steam navigation, With steamboat d Light
gers can be conveyed from the town of Minatit,an
10 Malpaco, or the landing of Sars.n,a. which "a
w!nin nifty miles OF the Pacific ocean. Al that
point they would have to take horses or mules to
from tvua,a 20 a IN snores which would occupy
,rom1 WE'VE TO thlrty-s,x hours. Thus passengers
would arrive at that point on their Journey IN from
five to seven do, "A.
The ne po'r. Of embarkation on the Pacific is in
NJ .ke of San Francisco, a large estuary, into
..hich ocean steamers, it is presumed, can easily
enter through very narrow mouth which commu-
nicates with the ocean about ten miles 5. E. from
the city of Tehuantepec. The port of San Fran
cisco Is situated IN north latitude l6 degrees IL
minutes, and is distant from our San Francisco,
in California, about two thousand two hundred
miles, equal to- eight days OF steam navigation.
The climate OF Tehuantepec Is very healthy, provl-
sions abundant and cheap;, mules and horses
abound, ard can be furnished cheap. Passengers
would suffer no delay for want of transportation
and II they should meet with any detention IN
Tehuantepec, tor want OF vessels, their provisions
would not cost them more than twenty-five cents
per day. There IS nothing hypothetical in this
sonal knowledge, having crossed the lsthmus
repeatedly. Practical men, by looking at the map,
will find the steamng distance on both sides Is
correct. II is, therefore, IN the opinion OF the
winter, satisfactorily demonstrated that passengers
by the Iehuantepec route can, with the aid OF
steam navigation, as above mentioned, be trans
ported from New Orleans to San Francisco in
fifteen days. railroad across the lsthmus would
reduce the time to twelve days. Tie price of pas
sage by this route would aot be more than one
third the prices aow charged via Panama; and not
mcie than One.half the time would be required to
complete the trip. With these facts before us, is
1t not, ask, the duty OF our government to ask
and obtain from Mexico the privilege of transit for
our citizens! GUsAcUALCo
MORE CONFIRMATION OF Mr.. BRANCH's LETTERS
on THE IsTHMUs OF PANAMA. correspondent Of
the Troy Wing. writing from Cruces, under date
OF Jan sth, confirms the sad accounts already re-
celved, Of the difficulties of travelling over the
passengers In the Falcon died of cholera In six
hours after they were attacked; alse three of the
natives, hle two others recovered. He continues:
"The man who died last night was abandoned
friends could be found to bury him; only one re-
NAMED by HIM, and he begged of every one most
beseechlngy for help. Three volunteered, myself
among Them, and we buried HIM this morning. I
could not bear the thought OF the poor fellow laying
here to decay upon the ground, or be devoured by
the vermin, without friend to pay him the last
obseques. His br Their is collector or assistant
collector of the port of New Orleans, and Is now
at Panama: His name Is Hayden. The others
who have died are Bne or Blrge of New York
and Capt. Elliot, OF the U. S. Army. These men
all encsmped out on the ground Men are rushing
off every way, and at all prices, to Panama
leaving baggage and every thing else behind
Some pay $50 to the latter place, II being only q
miles. We have hired house at so cents pei
day while we stay here. But we shall probably
leave Tomorrow" He adds that the passage
across the Isthmus cost him 300, and advises no
one to take that route. Five franc pieces pass fol
81 rs, ten cent pieces for dollar pistareens Is
bundled 10 eight hundred inhabitants at Cruces,
all cOlored, and mostly naked The accounts
from the gold region were far more extravagant
than those which have been circulated in New
York He says that the alligators were rather
snapplsh on the route.-Ph,la. Inquirer, Feb. +.