Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-07-03

ture to know gentleman except BY his garb.
or to discover worth beneath red shirt and
coarse sombrero, hence making great distinc-
ton between those forward and those aft of the
engine, and exciting the i'll will Of the huge
paws and backwoodsmen. Nevertheless, he
is an able navigator, attentive to his duties as
such, and ever watchful of the dangers which
beset his ship as she pursues her onward way.
have no word Of complaint to bring against
him.
The list Mate was as much a favorite with
the steerage as the Capt. made himself with the
cabin passengers. He was coarse, ill-bred
fellow, however, profane in speech and often
disgusting in action. He, with the Sd Mate
and several of the crew, ran away from the
ship at Chagres, and have seen them in the
streets of this city en- route for Ell Dorado
The Clerk of the Philadelphia is Mr.. EDWARD
H. MITCHELL, formerly clerk in the house of
Messrs. Magoun & Clapp, of your city. He
is universal favorite, attentive to his business
and not inattentive TO the passengers-a jewel
worthy to adorn better ship than the one on
which his lot is cast. Long will his kind at
tentions be remembered not by me only, but
by those who 'groaned in spirit being troubled
with sea-sickness on board the P. Of the
cooks, walters, stewards, etc., have only to
say that, generally, they are dirty set of fel-
lows, fit tools to do the dirty work of their
employers. To man, they are foreigners,
saucy in the extreme, profane and obscene to
the most disgusting extent, and better fitted to
do the drudgery of some low pot house on the
Five Points than to wait upon the order-loy-
ing and quiet population of the States feel
no compunctions for this tribute as ii is richly
merited and therefore make no charge for ii.
l. now leave our fellow passengers, the Off
GERS and crew, to attend to the unromantic en-
ployment of holding on to keep from being
sprawled on the deck by the heavy swell of
the Caribbean sea. We are nearing the land.
and ever and anon as we lay in the trough,
heavy sea will strike the ship, and away go
seats and benches. piling at times both ladies
and gentlemen up pell nell upon the floor,
happily doing no serious injury to life or limb
Such scenes are closed with general laugh,
which has to be repeated at short intervals un-
til, one after another, all have slunk away to
WOO Natures kind restorer, balmy Sleep
The morning light of "Wednesday, May 18th
revealed the broken, miasmatic shore of South
America, near Porto Bello. This is one Of
the unhealthlest spots on the face of this fair
earth, and so long as its dense primeval forests
remain undisturbed, and the humid atmosphere
continues to decompose the mass of vegetable
growth which is continually ripcning off, so
long death TO the unacclimated will bask be-
meath the thick foliage and along the dark val
lcys of this fertile region. Thirty miles fur
ther on we are to take leave Of our ship Half
this distance brings us to Navy Bay, place
entered by the steamers in rough weather, and
the Atlantic terminus of the proposed Panama
Railroad A solitary sail is the only sign Of
life visible in the Bay as we pass It's entrance.
An hour more and large steamer-the Cres-
cent City-is seen riding at anchor off the
mouth of the Chagres river. She left New
York two days before us, and arrived about the
same length of time in advance. She is al
ready steaming up for her homeward trip with
returning Californians on board We drop
inside of her and cast anchor; the famed town
of Chagres is before us, description of which
will defer until my next. So at this point, the
rain falling in true tropical style, the once
bristling fort in full view and the natives
swarming around our ship, will for the pres
ent bid you adieu. J.r.G.