The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-16

Very Late fTem Nicaragua.
Opening Of The Nelc Ro,4te to he Pacific Sue
cess Of The Heamers on Lake Nicaragua and
Rieer San Juan---Aggrsssion fine English,
dc, dc, Dc.
The splendid steamship prometheus, Capt.
Churchill, arrived on Wednesday, after making
short passage from San Juan de Nicaragua
She left that place the 4th instant
The news brought by the Pronetheus is In
teresting in commercial point of view The
new route from the Atlantic To the Pacific, by
the way Of the Lake Nicaragua, has been success
fully opened Our correspondents give full and
interesting accounts of this important event
We learn by the Y. that tho reports which
have appeared in the New York papers, relative
To the Nicaragua route, are unfounded in fact
1t has been stated that the Nicaraguan govern
ment had revoked the charter giving Messrs
Vanderbilt, White a. Co. the exclusive right OF
the Nicaragua route, because the company had
failed TO fulfil the conditions on which the grant
was made. This report was unknown nj Mica
ragua, and unknown to its government there is
no truth in ii.
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That subsequent to the grant made to the
above named company, the Nicaraguan govern
ment made another grant, giving the same pri-
vileges to another company in common with
them. When Messrs. Vanderbilt White a. Co,
heard this report, they directed their agent at
Nicaragua to inquire into its truth, from the gov
ernmcnt; and the minister for foreign affairs re-
piled, that there was no truth in it, and the re-
ply has been laid before the board Of directors,
who we're perfectly satisfied with it.
These reports probably arose out of the fact
of the right of navigation OF the waters OF the
country being grated to another party, but not
for the purpose line Of communication, but
for merely internal purposes. The route con-
sist entirely OF water, except twelve miles, which
is so level that a horse can trot over it in an
hour 1t is proposed to erect either a plank
road, or railroad-probably the former at first
as the distance is so short.
The Promotions returned on Thursday even
ing, at 5 o'clock, to San San Juan, with passen-
gers for California
Orr New YORK, August ~ 1851
TRIP, BY THE NEW ROUTE, FROM THE Pa
crFIc TO THE .ATLANTIc---As | am n constant
reader of your valuable paper, and feel that al.
ways get the earliest intorma ion through its
columns Of everything that is Few and interest
ing, therefore have made the following state
ment of facts for your use, az you may deem
proper
| left San Francisco on the l4th ult.. at six
o'clock, p. m, in the beautiful steamship Pacific
with 425 passengers; we proceeded to Acapulco
and remained there forty hours; supplied our
selves with provisions and Goals, and arrived at
San Juan del Sud, on the Pacific, the 29.h after
a passage of fourteen days and sixteen hours
| took mule and rode distance Of eighteen
miles, to the city of Revoes, in three and hall
hours stopped there three days and four hours
Iaf in cfa nd thrnn
Lake Nicaragua to the Rapids, where we ar
rived in twenty one hours, at which place we
stopped eighteen hours; there took the beauti-
full iron steamer Sir Henry L. Bulwer, and
passed down the most romantic and beautiful
river have ever seem in about ten hours, to the
splendid steamship Promotheus, at San Juan, OF
the Atlantic. The next morning, at eleven
o'clock, d. M, we sailed for New York, with $50
passengers. Arrived in New York on the 18th
at eleven p. IN, making The whoie running time
from The Pacific 10 The Atlantic ocean, hirty.tour
and h0B hours; and, in few trips, when
Commodore Vanderbilt gets his men well broke
in, ! can see no difficulty in his passing from
ocean 10 ocean in t,centp four hours.
/ What benefit this will be to toe world
leave for others 10 Judge, as have merely giver
the facts of the trip. We made the poyage from
San Francisco IN hoenty-nine days and fo'
hourS 1t is my opinion that saving from thi,
will be about as follows: The passage from
San Francisco to San Juan del Sud, will b.
regular in the steamship Pacific, twelve days
from ocean to ocean. one day; from San Juan &c
New York, eight days; for loss in time anc
changing, one day; making IN all f,oenty tiot
days through This, think, there is no doubt of
In passing over this most beautiful and healthy
country, there has not been one person of the
whole party that has suffered from sickness oil
fatigue, that can be imputed TO the climate
think this part of the Isthmus as healthy as any
country | ever travelled through.
Yours, respectfully, SMITH CRANE.
San JUAN DE NICARAGUA, Aug. 8. 1851.
! Attack of Robbers Horrible Affair arriag,
IF one Of The Royal Family of MosquiIo--Ag
! gression of The Engi sh, dc.
| Since mine Of the 18th ult., we have beer
awaiting with much anxiety the final trial of tn,
practicability of this route The steamer as
cended the river on Saturday last.
| The Premetheus has been laying here sever
days, awaiting orders from Captan Vanderbilt
who has gone up the river,) with one hundred
and thirty-one passengers on board, which she
obtained at Chagres for New York, and who are
much dissatisfied that they are detained here SC
long from their friends IT home.
The British harque Tbetis was cast away or
the Pacific, a few weeks since, and her captain
in crossing the country en- route for this port
for embarkation, while near the town of Puebla
Nevada, in Nicaragua, was assniled by party OF
robbers, and horribly mutated--his arms and
legs being literally chopped in pieces. He sur.
vived to reach Granada, and there he died.
The King of Mosquito still retains his seat
on the throne of the Woolwas Ramahs. Sam.
boes and Mosqntians. His sister. the Princess
Agnes Frederick augusta, was married on the
9th of july at Blewfeds, to Michael Hodgson
a Mosquitian negro. The prince consort is now
in this town making fence for a friend of mine
Michael was not aware that the pension allowed
by the British government TO the princess ceased
on her marriage, until the marriage hour Ind ar
rived, and when he learned it, he refused to be
married; and it was by force, almost, he was
led to the presence of the Moravian clergyman
who ofiiciated. Britain means to civilize these
numerous tribes of Indians to subserve pur-
poses Of her own-to carry out her own deep
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