New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-25
SOUTH PACIFIC COAST.
coue.pondenee Of II. N. Y. Tribune.


VALPARAISO, Thursday, March u.s. 1855.
By a very unfortunate arrangement Of the Eoslish
Steamship Company between thi. and Panama, we
aye about IS far distant in time from New-York and
California from Epglani-that is to sly over elk
weeks The fault lies it il raid, with the Admiralty
in England, lest ria New York, ten days later
should reach us sooner than il now comes by the d.
rect route.
Tie steamers from San FrsLcisco and New York
with the mails arrive just in TO be left benin
every trp-the letters and papers thus being delayed
two weeks until the next steamer sails. At first we
thought the delay only accidental but the truth
is unwilipgly believed TO be a. stated above.
Nost of the foreign co nmerce here Is in the hands
Of FL glish and SEQ chmen tome of ~hom have spent
a large portion Of their lives on this coast Young
often arriving from England, who sen,
Cut 10 FIJI sitrAtions Of which they previously adj
yiseo; or in some cases, they come out seeking for
tune which the great si nuus to trade here as else
where
Tie RAILROADS the mines the mint well a. much
of the active business of the country dire ted by
EpelistmeD. Ctzeos Of the United States, which as
yet sencs abroad but few colonists, have also COM
p,ied for the palm IN Of the enterorises, AID
with honorable success. The American merc antile
firms of Asop s. Co, and OF Loring & Co., are kno WI
world wide as Of 'he most reli.be character, and
supposed standing in this country.
BY the way speaking OF AMERICAN the Chilisns do
Lot erm US Of the United Sta'es 70 app-opris'e this
term exclusively 10 ourselves. We are North Ameri-
cans, 81 themselves Smonpure Americans cay
they, erd thur they always speak IF us
As said before, The contrasts in civilization here,
Ike varieties Of color, endless. rhe Indian
tribes we're not subdued and extirpsted, az in the
United Stste., but conquered and absorbed-swal.
lowtd ur-n the couqueiing race who, for the mott
part, helrg without wives when they came hither,
three ceniDrits ego toek them wives of the dsGgl-
'''eIs OF the lsrd snd here made their homes and
deo. Some Spanih officers had their families sen.
nj 10 ban Ne IL lT-ta n Id
ihem with theirs. Hence. 10 coubt. the mixture az
eerow find il. Bl4cS spirits and white mingla
ipele Nil gle in snctss alterpstons. For the last
fifty years French and German bl)or, az well as the
OLD Casuiisn, Ita ion, American and Eoglisn, have
contributed 10 multiply The white blood 50 In there
is at present al upper class mostly distinguished By
col Alone.
P,onage, or the seryie employment of the inferior
lr dI race Is tue source OF most of the industry
10 he country. 10 fact pbysicsl labor Of almost ali
kncs is cole by them alone, excepting few
artisans sid mech aIics in the towns and also a few
German ano scoich coicnists recently settled 10 the
AmsZonsn provbces
IL mar 1pects, no doubt, the peoa is better of
than the gIo Save IN The southern States OF our
Union Will, in fes, he i. not a. well provided for
lie woiks for pay witch Is somsn mes scanty en- ,ugh
AID slwsys contingent upon demand as is his liyeU
booo De n after Of oourse, upon his EMPLOYER who
II ay reed him or lot. When In old aye or si,knsss
or misfortune be must shift as he can Wneo he
cts, be is buried as cog, AID this is the end of
tnou-aIds every year. No accumulation of wealth.
20 Intellectual cultivation, no Improvement of comb.
ten appears 70 be possible for this class while thinys
continue es they are. As q servant he NAV be- u.e.
full and IN many cases becomes bet,ered thereby in
condition, but rarely does he profit by hs earnings
uSless, perhsps by the special attention of his ma
ter which be seldom receives The future il is To be
hoped, may 90 somewhat for this unfortunsis class.
TO uutrou. in this country, AID all praise shall be
assroed 10 him who is 10 devise the best manner of
accomplishing il.
II lie curious 10 observe the difference bet reen this