The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-05-18

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PANAMA. Apul > 1850
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a.. ,b,r.i,r,. ,tirt,.lnt IN, same Gnnr. side by
..i. f,,.n n..r lu, battery Thor. must have
l,,,, aaolu p.,ulr To see Ms ur IN, wharfs.
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with l,n1ap beiue. To see, .b..f Gtrll. ,r ami
ct., .l-, steamer, beam III MOVE ..,nt cheer.
i.r,.,.,p ..,,r heard II ,.t a.. al IN ,-...l ~nir
it, When f,rIy ou,. the usual sen .. .gu.,.cdl
u.u,.l hat had uotfil. of the Kind. When
.,y, Itvs out. W, had an alarm of ircvl;.h was
y.u.. was pl.,n..'up the.,tiir ON 20 Oh, upper
deck. when h,arIn flint cry Of I'm, in the alter
nlrt Of th. shin. which at inst ,wr.,cl was
ramon, ,yl, ,s.nubt i, ,.,tr;, IAN, H. Y,>f mo-.
mon, rlr ,poE, cine r-lio- ibrnn IN ,l.. .yc,.l
vl.h th, general ,rccyh offir,. fin. r.,l a hun.
..r.I voice, at once b. that tim, WIS ON the
upp.r deck AMI IN, En-, va- ~.rrt..ia, through
a ,cut.lc more than ten feet. Sgh white faces
never ,y.r, sran l.f,r, -,y. ,,., ...,.,n,, Nm,
de.l, a, ,hou.h they hal no lr,. tn~pp,,sgt thcm
an in frct il wasa most fearful moment f,r the
shin was rolling bad ina L-lv; .yl | ,ur3nr
down the stair, un ,u the main d.,kanl forced my
WAY through the crowd To- the sea-, Oh. the lire, and
found the water pouin, into the kitchen in rood
earnest which ,"uu ended the flight. 1t was no
thns One OF the cooks spilled a llu Of iurI,,d
lard ON the stowe which was very hot. and the
grease Instantly took tire and fll. hcwhplc room
with flame which ,.rcamrl ou, Of the doors aud
fhrop.1thc ,cuttlr. Til, Wa, the uuh Thing that
stirred Us M till We arrived at CM.r.-. lprnnum
ced Chah-gras accent On the Gr,t syllable. Oh is
in church and short a in the M,tl | should
think that the town contained ulogt u Thousand
natives Of mixed race the African blood pralu-
minatiur
The houses are built uCrpnl- after lie East IN
dm flslion The ru.f, tl.trlcl. and are very
steep and four SQUARE ,p that alta little distance
thcy lupk f,rall the world Ike hay stacks Such
Q, therlaracer ofall the house, t.l We arrived in
this city.
The people are very clean. the women in plr
,j,ular. are very courteous and honest Tho only
fear any man should have Is the fear OF our own
countrymcn. We have formed % company with
three men from Michigan, one of whom speaks
good Spanish and hired bout for two dollar,
cash ahL started up the river about noon the 10Th
and horea scene brokcupon our view rnfrrlynew
70 ", all not tree. not shrub. not al plant. not
"a flower ora spear Of .,r;,,, such as We had ever
seen before. The river /, about the size oi the Il
lnui,, and Of exactly the same character the fir.
thirty mile, Imeln the lower Illinois, Il then
comes into higher country, and us-umesa differ
crt character II becomes rarI Ike the Fox
without rocks but a quick current over A Gravel
and sandy bottom very much Ike the Fox At the
aqueduct; but hoidinyits lie fall NO to the Hi.
n1is, in this dry season. In Oetobcri. must be a
terrible river at Gorgona Was told that it had
raised twenty feet in | > huurs
The scenery like the Illinois is soft and -rern 10
the waters edge Tneycr cniuvrd mv.elf better
Eycrythin. was new. from the wide spread ma.
hogany tree to the smallest flower The tall Liz.
nmnyita with IT, flowers exactly resembling the
lilac, and the beautiful cpcoanut tree, with their
straight trunk. anil plum iii, tops were full ofin
tcrc,, to me. \ vast quantity If the vegetation
assumes a com shaucl leaf earar .rr,p In be- an
annual. come up like a handful of ostrich feather.
turn outward, ms thpy rise ami .r. full sixty ta,
tail.
{ The weather is r.. A. b,t a. ,,,ortrl
sLpull tIipl,u,, ,.r - I.r. AMI OIL. tr,,.-.- &,
ha. ranged fruul-s6 tn 500. those fr,r.- /. i'm.