The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-11

ana from the tenor Of their report there appears
rae aoubt of the feasibility Of constructing the
proposea canal although such an undertaking
will meet with many obstacles, both from the
broken nature Of the country and the hos.
tili,y Of the Indiass, particularly on the Atlantic
SIDE where they are reported to be arning with the
intention of making desperate resistance TO the
encrcaehments OF the whites. New discoveries have
been made OF Intensive beds OF precious metals and
Of quarries Of fine marble in Chill. So far as APP
pearsnces Gre concerned the miners of that count nv
are in a most fourisbipg condition; bnt the enc
raly Of the people there as in nearly every ether
part Of South America kept in perpet asl state
Of Excitement 10y political and religion teuds in
consequence Of which majority Of the a, sre likely
10 remain poor and miserable until thef are enlght-
ened BY tie Americans md Englis fYaen who are
sa.t taking up their abode among them The IN
habitants Of Valparaiso have D .sn much pleased
with The announcement thaE II ey are hereafter to
" supplied With North Amer car ice at the nate o.
four cents PER pound which cheaper than they can
procure frozen snow from = % Cordnleras.
BY way Of Panama We pave received letter from
our Melbourne eorfspof dent and have files OF Aus
trali2n pspcrs q the II d OF November. The news,
though not very mpor iant IS varied and interesting
We have additional particulars respecting the oeca-
patton of New Ga ed5ais by the French, and the
rtb2tls coaseqr' .nces CT that act the convict
system q Enrll a. AMI her policy toward he Poly
o.-in islands sydney correspondent Of the
Melbourne ~ .tts reports the abandonment Of the
oiange river sovereignty BY the British. Active
preparation were making 70 cocnige the banks and
drive trf de along the sides If the newly ex plered
Murray Z yer. a gerry exciting sailing match had
taken p ace OF The waters Of Port Philip, between
the an erican schooner Pride Of the Sea built by
| George Steers and the English yacht Leila, in
| which The latter was far distanced. Captain
| Frrde, T. s a., Of Salem. .sss., died Of fever
| in Melbourne on tie 30th OF October. party
Of Aroerica IDS had contracted with the corpora.
ton Of Melbourne for cleaning and watering
the streets Of that city fron which presume that
they are enierpring New Workers, who are aware
what sinecure such spectators enjoy ct home.
number OF United States pewspoys had landed in
Melbourne ard created quite jealousy amongst the
newspaper folk by their eager business habits. The
last trade reports andsgold circulars are given.
Adviccs from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 2Sth ult-,
announce that the House of Assembly and Board OF
Council were IN session. On the oath ulimo the
Bon NJ. Porteus called the attention Of the latter
body to the recent Emancpado erder Of the Cap
tain General Of Cuba ana urged that the labor m ar
ket Of Jamaica should be rep'enisied by govern
ment importation Of the negroes freed thereby. It
was resolved thata depustion from the Board should
wait upon the Governor Of Jamaica, and request him
10 put himself in commune s.on with the English
Consul a. Havana the subject with view to as
certain how far advantage could be taken OF the
African liberation policy Of Spain.
In a communication from the Comptroller II the
Board OF Aldermen that unc.ionary recommends
revision Of the ordinances prescribing the powers
and duties Of several departments. The Comptroller
sates that several heads Of depal tnents have been
IN tie habit Of lodging the public money received by
them IN banks AID placing the interes. to their own
credit, instead o. 10 the credit OF the county. The
Teformers viii doubtless look to tuis.
The Reverend samuel Osgood delivered lecture
last evening before the members Of the Mercantile
Library Association, upon "Our Old Men AID Our
Young Men" The reverend lecturer had very
large Audience.
Rev !. II. Chapn delivered lecture last even
nr the life Q: John Harupdsu, but owing TO the
want Of roon we compelled TO omit reports OF
his end two or three other lectures which we have
tyne. Il possible We shall pnols, al u them To-
morrow.
our telepTaphic dispatches contain various a.
counts 81 maritime and railroad accidents, political
commercial and general news, to which, As well IS
|
canoot atiord space !or particular reference.
The Cunsrd steamship Africa is neary due a.
his port, with three days later advces from Europe
She i noE il FER fourteenth day.
The spoiI-Iucn M Washing ton and Albany
We draw particular attention to the very
able and lucid report of Mr.. Engineer Meal
pine on our works Of internal improvement in
genera! and the proposed canal enlargement in
particular. 4 perusal Of this excellent docu-
ment cannot fail 70 convince every one that
had the enlightened policy pursued by De Witt
Clinton and his contemporaries been steadily
followed up = the present day the New York
canals would By this time have furnished not
only ample means for their own enlargement
and completion. but n surplus fund over AID
above all charges Had the tolls been kept at
the rates that existed some years ago they
would now be pouring several millions into the
! State treasury. and instead Of promising to
become drain upon the public would have
provided our State government with all the
money il required. The reduction of the tolls
benefited no one but the forwarders. The pub
: lie derived no advantage from ii, as ii made
no sensible alteration in the price OF produce:
aud as, according to Mr.. McAlpine. the rail-
roads could not compete with the canals for
the carriage Of bulky articles, il conferred no
benefit on the State. The traffic would have
been the same, if there had been no dminution
% The coils i was done simply IN order to put
money into the pockets of the forwarders who
were in league with the politicians and
i.-chemcrs at Albany; and the consequence now
| i that we are called upon to raise ten millions
ana hs,f to make UP the deficit caused by
The, reduction
Wu have or more than one occasion sketched
+Lo a,,' upe ~ tho sroil az Waeb;nrton Our