The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-02

omy, and with dsxterity that would give New
YORK butcher MT epilepsy. A chunk IL cut from
the leg, another from the ribs, from the neck,
and SO on until the boast is 10 mnce meat IL is then
brought to markes. fcut into strings, the hatcher
commences ut the leg and proceeds to the head,
thence down again aad up again, so that if
you are very hungry or wish 10 lay in provisions
Tor voyage, you can purchase o hundred yards
OF beef IN one string Although tho soil and climate
are favorable in the highest degree to vegetation,
there is great scarcity Of vegetables in Panama.
In pc atoes cannot be had, and for salad
celery and such things, they are net to be procured
for love or money. Tnree diminutive potatoes sell
for half dime, eggs cell five for two dimes, yam
is worth dime, and small oNtre looking tomatoes
tanned for less than dollar. cannot imagine
how the poor people oontrive live. You may we'll
suppose that eMigrants who reach here with hun
bred or two dollars, for the purchase of ticket to
expsnd ell their money while awaiting an opportu.
nifty to reach their destination. At present there
are three or four hundred such in Panama Having
no oney, they sleep outside the walls the bare
ground Thstoget with scapty food, superinduoes
fever and disease, and the consequence is many
die Some ofthem arc lucky enough to reach Califor
MIA IN ruined health, whero they inger 70 months
Their deaths are very Improperly attributed to
the climate OF that State, whereas it ought to be
laia at the door of Panama; bat, III the frat in.
stance, to tho imprudence of the sufferers, who,
through bad advice. or other cause, neglected to
provioe themselves with through tickets
is in excellent condition If it is in good condition
now, | would like to know how it is in the rainy
season. rode the whole Of it on Sunday, and
more yillaiuous track or path never say Every
bone, sino@ and muscle in my body Is still aching
from the exertion OF travelling over IL IL is moth
ing but succession of hills and hol!oWs. and the
uptortupste traveller wishes himself at homo
Thousand times while on the way. Aad bare lot ma
give piece of advice to those who intend to bring
their families TO California by this route As sooa
n yryv at I'm en- % n hoat IN
ard have mono with you but your wives aud
children. This viii cost from $50 to 500 Be
sure TO make contract before hand, and engage
the man 70 tako you direct, without staying over
night a. any Of the miserable ranches the
way. fer yon cannot &c. any accomuod stion,
or any thing fit TO cat in them. b sure,
too, to provide yoUrselve! with provisions in
New York or Havana. Preserved meats are
very good, SO are Bologna saussges, sardinss, and
such things. Take likewise some caret and guava
jelly or paste to mix with the river water for il is
bad until you get within twenty miles Of Gorgona.
Take this advice, aud you will thank the person
who gives it. When you reach Gorgona, you will
find the hotel accommodations miserable in the OK
treme DO the best you can and engage mules.
Your own mule with that Of your wife, with u side
saddle, will cost say $l2, but procure good large
get poor or email ones, the probability Is that they
will stick in the bog holes on the way. Now for
the baggage and children. Send the former By ex-
press--lt will be taken to Panama at the rate Of
as you will have enough 10 attend to without 1t
Children are taken by natives with perfect safety
in cradles fixed on their shoulders. Tho expense
will be from So to So for a,h child II you vii
follow this advice, you will sincerely thank him
who gave it, although you may never see him or
know who he is II Is mistaken idea that bags
are preferable to trunks Trunks are much
mere convenient in every respect, and unless
facility as bags. Besides this clothing is spoiled
and crumpled in bags. smart man can "tell
beans when tho bag IS open" but no one can find
an article Of clothing in q long bag, unless he
pties the whole Of the contents on the floor. All
travellers BY this route should provide themselves
with dimes or ten cent pieces shilling will not
pass Il + more than dime, and gold dollar is no.
worth n ore than nine dimes. Ifyou do not take
dimes With you, therefore, you will lose ten per
cent on your expenditures on the lsthmus Money
ia Ieckcned by dimes altogether. Thus, if you pur
chase article for two dollars and hand the seller
quarter eagle, he will give you back two dimes
ana one half dime in change You thus lose TWEEN
ty-6ve c,pts en- - SO The American Consul,
too GARD THE is very extraordinarily will not for
portage or feee, allies the fail value OF American
gold, but practices the dime system, much to the
anroy Of such Of the emigraass wish TO pre-
psy letters TO the Atlantic States shall make no
comment on this PIC ayune business
hile on E.y way from Chagres 60 Gorgona,
bad an opportunity OF witnessing the beautiful
manner in Shich the Unite States mail is trans.
ported il tness oiggings The bags are piled on
the backs OF mules, there being native to every
three or four animate. If any of the mules are
overloaded, they founder In the mud, and there
they remain, sometimes for an hour, and often, |
am informed for whole day, the mule sometimes
dying while the driver returns for another beast
the bags are exposed, and are liable to be riasd by
any person who passes As | was donkeyiug my
way TO this hole Of place, saw one Of the mail
mules on his back in gulch the bags under him,
and his feet directed to wards the sky, no person
being near. Any one so disposed could have taken
one or more of the bags into the jungle, and pos
sessed himself Of the contents without mourning any
risk of detection do not know who is to blame
for the way in which the mails transported here,
nor do ! care but say deliberately that there is
no government but ours in the world that would
tolerate such system for a day. The way in
which the mails are carried here is disgrace to
the country; and the wonder is that one half of the
bags reach their destination. row can account
fer missing letters between the old States and Ca
lfornia.
There are but few objects of Interest in Panama
The churches are massive structures, benring the
marks of time, and like all other buildings here.
public and priga are in sad state of delapida
ton and decay. The way in which some of the
tower bells are rung is to me some what novel In
mediately opposite my hotel lie church, In which
service is continually performed The rope which
formerly was attached to the bell wore out, aud
sooner than get new one, native, when the
time arrives for mass, mounts the tower, and
hammers away at the bell with q billet Of wood
When done, ne dea,ends, and assists the pad,e in
his church minisrations In inches in the walls
images, as large as life, of the Virgin Mary, the
Saviour, and the Apostles, all of them dressed in
Spanish costume-the Apostles having boards and
moustaches of the true Spanish cut. should say
the Virgin is the greatest fayorite Of them oil, for
che is evidently treated to q new frock, and new
FAM oitener than ST. Paul St. Peter, or the other
apostles, arc to new brooches ! am sorry to
say there is great want Of piety among
the natives, and that they prefer visiting the
cock pit, or loafng in tho streets, to attending
their churches fear the pious monitions of the
reverend padres thrown away on the stiff neeked
and anana-eatipg natives. This is to be regretted
for there are churches enough hero, and priests
enough to save tho souls of all the people Of Central
America. II rumor does not belle these holy men,
the ppdrts themselves sometimes engage in cook
fighting; and it is anonymously reported Of them
that they have the best cocks in the country, as
we'll as the most dangerous ones. The cock pit Of
Panama is well worth visiting strolled in there
on Sunday afternoon, and was much interested in
what 1 saw. There were about two hundred ma
tives present, each with his cock under mis- arm It
bore resemblance to the New York Exchange at
change hour. Such chatterng and jabbering
ne yer heard in my life Ii was dearening. AT