New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-06
AFFAIRS AT PANAMA.
DISORDER OF MAILS ON THE IsrHMus
CulpABIE NEGLECT OF MAIL AGENTS.
GREAT RIOT AND LOSS OF LIFE.
From cur owa Correspondent


PANAMA, Friday May H.
To ne Editors Of Tie Tribune;
beg to inform you, that my attention has been
called to some half dozen New York mail bags ly-
ing here in our old storage warehouse where they
have been for several months past. examined
them as closely as / could, the owner Of the build.
ing refusing to give permission to any thorough
examination, unless he first received pay for store
age when he would hand them over TO anybody
who chose to pay his bill of charges. l saw
enough to satisfy me that the bags were all made
up at the New-York City PostOtiice for San Fran
cisco-so labeled and postmarkea. The newspa.
pers are stamped Paid" in red. The Consul
here is knowing to the fact and nss been told oft
more than once l find many " 1ribaRes" thus
post "a d. and other valuable parcels directed to
various persons on the Pacific, dated October and
December, 1879 ] think it is high time that our
Government should send men here, honest and
capable Of dschargirg their whole duty to the
American people, instead Of looking to the spoils Of
ohice-to say nothing of various indiscretions I'M
becoming officers Of the American Government.
The Mail Agents sent on by every California
steamer don't 90 the half Of their duty. The agent
arrived here two weeks since, leaving the mail
bags three miles out of the city, where they re-
NAMED at least thirty hours, and now have to ad-
wise you that another, who came on the Ohio and
Falcon, last trip in charge of the mails, left them
behind on the Isthmus, as usual. The first batch
of them, five mule.loads, being the mail from New
Orleans only, reached Panama some treaty hours
after his arrival while the entire lot OF mail bags
from New York and the Middle and Eastern States
is yet behind in the rain and mud Of the Isthnus,
having been detained forty hOurs-maklng the
agent siTty hours in advance OF the mall The con
sequence is, that the steamer was obliged to leave
without the mails, excepting perhaps one 9Th Of
the whole, that from New Orleans, leaving about
forty large bogs to lie here for another steamer
j. W. Hale's private express mail and passen-
gers have been here three and four days; they all
reported the mails behind, it having got separated
on Chagres River, part going to Cruces, six miles
beyond CORONA, and thus being left to the care OF
nobody. 1t is high time, this whole matter was
looked into.
The New Grenadan Government is a mere
JaeettHe. They cannot collect the taxes exacted
of American residents as imposed by their avs
have in mind one gentleman from New Orleans,
who is the largest merchant, banker, and exchange
operator and ticket Spectator in this city-a few
DAY since he was called upon and notified by the
authorities, that they wished him To consider him.
sell under arrest for non-payment of taxes, &c. He
replied No you must do With me, as you do with
your own subjects, imprison me--they sad No, he
as too fvApeCtGbt- rs tlSsa sVid si~sD tiO asIyu
for no indulge nee from them but that they should do
their duty without fear or favor. In reply they qu-
city told him the Government would soon have
lareer native force collected here to enforce their
laws the reply was the first drop OF blood shed
here is the end Of the Republic
The city taxes are unequal and exorbitant, the
Americans being taxed r0uRdly for trading and
dealing here without receiving any beMfts. The
fact is we Americans want hospitals erected for
our sick and other duties fulfilled otherwise no tax.
es can be collected from us. The Catholic Church
WIS much Of the real estate here-they cannot
selitbut are willing to lease it for term of years
Ii is supposed by many that at the next meeting
of the LEGISLATURE that the connection between
Church and State will be entirely dissolved. We
want Protestant Church here-one is greatly
needed by the American residents, and also by
hose passing on 10 California and elsewhere across
the lktimus
There is no difficulty in the wsy OF getting funds
here toward the support OF the Gospel and know
Of large building, formerly occupied as nunnery,
a Io,ge upper room of which could be had for $500
per aDnum IL would cost $1,000 to tit 1t up, and It
could be had on lease. Ii is well ventilated, and
in very desirable location, overlooking the whole
bay and country around for miles.
Here is also a grand opening for good thysi
cian He ought to understand the Spanish ian,
eusge and should be a polished gentleman ana
scholar. Such man would have large Prsctse,
and be well compensated. He should bring letters
10 the Consuls, both English and American and
also 10 the principal merchants here. My word tor
it, he would prosper Yours truiy ,,,,,yo