The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-23
Our Chagres Correspondence.
ShA"htS, ~. VI, ~ u5"s' - W.
Tar on Americans- Steam Ndvigafton OF the

0V AWefICuUS-D teuU NuptSutto" VI 49,
Chdgres Riuer-1he Riper Route, &c.
Since my last, very little of interest has trans
PRED here The Americans have, believe, conclud-
ed TO pay part of the tax imposed upon them by
the law which took effect the first Of the present
year. You can Judge of It's enormity when l tell
YOU that hotels are taxed 81 40 per annun, be-
sides two reals per month for each door ana wirl-
dow in the house. Ii the route should change, IL
Will, al asst, be some satisfaction 10 those VINO
may suffer iherefIon, thatthe natives OF the coun-
Try will be reduced TO the same degraded conutlon
they were in before the emigration. The govern
ment of New Granada, aciuated oy miserable
Jealousy, characteristic OF the Spanish race, OF
Americans, has placed every possible obstacle IN
the way Of our people.
A great deal has been said, pro and con about
| the Nicaragua route. The statements are so con-
| Trajectory, even from men OF character who have
travelled the route that II Is very dlincut 10 arrive
| at any conclusion My own opinion iS-and nave
been oiligent in my inquuos-lhat some time must
ealse before the route will be travelled to any ex.
tent, II II Is travelled al all.
Many suppose that because steamboat mas
been built TO run on the san Juan rlver That she
must necessarily ascend il. This is quite mistake.
The failure Of the General lleran and Rafael XII
this river, should satisfy people that success
does not invariably follow eadeayor.
| Speaking OF steamboats,, Mr. Matthews, the re-
! sideBt engineer of Law, az Cos liae, is now en-
gagged in reporting the boilers and machinery of the
Rafael Rlyas, and ii is confidently expected that she
will be able 10 get up 10 Gorgona She has made
trips quite regularly TO Palengilld, III miles below
| that place. Adsmson Il Co OF New Orleans :, have
| brought small steamboat they call the Harvey
| Gleason" ailer The American Consul of this place;
she is 40 ieel long, ~ feet beam, IL horse power
She will have difficulty, II Is thought, IN as
| cending as far as Gorgoua Besides these boats,
| two more being built IN New York, to say
| nothing of the small boats fitted up New York
| fashion, which have aryen The execrabe native
| dug outs almost entirely of the river.
| And thus connection must not forget 10 men
| ton capital acquisition 70 our society here, Capt
| Abraham BanckeT, formerly your ship news COZ
| lector. He has brought out Il number OF boats,
| fitted up in the most comfortable manner, aud Is
doing an excellent business His boat, with those
Of DIR. GoulJ ply stefan, and those OF the Irving
House, form the largest and best line on the Tiyer
1 Thinking IL would amuse your readers, give
| you The names Of the different hotels here, pre-
| missing, hswever, that many of them are hotels
only in name, being sadly deficient 10 the requisites
Irving House, Little Pelican, North American
| Hotel, Orleans House. New York Exchange Ho-
| tel, Howard House, Empire City Hotel, Crescent
| City Hotel, Falcon House, Astor House, United
States Hotel, French Hotel, Washington Hotel,
| Merchants Hotel, and Union Hotel OF these the
! Irving House stands immeasureaby in advance OF
its competitors, il being large, well furnished, and
admirably managed by Miller, the joliest Bonlface
| of the whole lsthmus
The class of diseases here are intermittent fevers
| diaIrhGa, and dysenery-the two latter in their
milder forms They are all susceptible OF cure, and
are not, as many suppose OF malignant character,
| as the p6nifo, DC. In a word, they are the same
| as the diseases which prevail in our Western
| country-and nothing more. Nine out of ten OF
those who are sick, may ascribe il to fright, rum,
| or exposure, or a delectable combination of all
| three.
The British steamer Avon brought word from
| Nicaragua that the Orus was hard aground on the
| bar of the San Juan river; but by dschargng her
coal, it was expected that she would get over.
The British steamer Ecuador arrived az Panama
on the 10th, from Valparaiso and the coast, with
| some 100000. She has been bought by "a
| American, and put on the line TO San Francisco.
The following the Names Of the steamers
| now running between Panama and San Francisco:
-Howland d Aspinwalls-- Tennessee, California:
! Oregon, Panama, Carolina, and Unicorn. George
| Law's-Isihmus, Republic, Columbus, and the An
| telope, which is expected on the 10th inst John
| Howard d Son's-Sarah Sands, New Orleans,
Northerner, and the English steamer Ecuador.
The Republic and Northerner sailed on the 9th
ult, and cleared Panama of the red and blue-shrt-
ed gentry. There are fewer people on the lsthmus
now, than have known since the emigration COM
menced; and these the California, which sails to-
day, will take. Passengers arriving on the Ishmns
in future, need not spprehend the delay which
heretofore has caused 80 much Inconvenience and
suffering. The trouble has been q scarcity of
eteamers-new II is scarcity Of passengers. There
| 10 now regular weekly steam commune alton
with California, to say nothing Of the sail vessels
which are daily departing for that place.
The American Hotel, In Cruces, under the ma
| nagement Of L. X. Folger and A. b. Miller, is now
open.