The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-07
Nicaragua.

Nicaragua.
LECTURE BY j. W. FABENs ON THE CLIMATE, SOIL
AND PRODUCTIONS OF NICARAGUA.
Mr.. J. W. Fabens, late United States Charge d'Afairs
10 Nicaragua delivered q lecture last evening IN the
broadway Tabernacle the "Cmate Soil and Produc-
ons Of Nicaragua" There intelligent and appre
ciative audience Of ladies and gentlemen present The
lecturer, coming forward, was greeted With loud ap
plause He began by describing the beauty Of the lands
Of the SUM- and the and poetry connected with
thoughts OF them In those beautiful regions In Central
America where there cities iu the far antiquity
throrged with commerce and wealth, where there
scarcely vesge Of their msgniacence and grandeur left
to mark the spo, where they stood with the lapse Of
ages, the supremacy OF the worlds Affairs by land
and by sea- has passed from the hands Of southern peo
pie into those who have been scbooled hardened and
invigorsted in the lands Of aud history teaches
that such transfer has been the consequences OF
system Of exclusiveness intolerance tyranny and grow
ing immortality the part Of the former. II labor with
them was contemplate, and the Interchange Of the
worlds commodities a calling 10 be deepised, then
laid bare TO the ken rocks on which their ships Of
state foundered and went down, II will be prvl-
lego to profit by the knowledge Cnizs ms ~ our
runs and already erected the pillars Of Southern
republic. The corner stone Of II laid by William
Walker when on the oth day Of June 1865 at the head
OF bic brave nifty blk, he landed at Realejo Nicaragua
With that event began new era in American history
The star Of empire" which had reached its western
Unit il golden California has entered upon it, returning
march There homes for The homeless peace, order
and contenmeni viii take the place Of strife anarchy
and enterprise Independence and competen,y for III
paid sborels Now the toiler need no or- scourge
himself with the cold severity OF northern Hnters but
may spend them among the balmy are OF more south
climate The nRny newspaper articles on General
Walkers career as well as the fact that Nicaragua Is
svorto horoughfare OF travellers passing between
the Pacific aud Atlantic confines Of country, have
eoubtIe,s made lie geographical posi'ion and terri
% se u. kSSn e Sss sua '3s se
oerips The Only pra,iesse route ship across
the continent By whtch The riches OF tbs West be
f-eiehitd 20 our shoresf-or these alone II 10
worthy Of more than ordinary interest
MIR. Everett in hi speech In the Senste or the LIST OF
March, 1853, ssd that II 1t had rot been for political
csepsiops In Ncaragun, and ,he had beer occupied
population Nv ms ma WI Snh t ,urnsa , spe waes, ae. o.
there would hsve been at that moment three masted
vessels OF twenty feet drsught navigating tho LAKE Of
Nicaragua their wsy TO the Pacific Noaragua
has area OF about 100 eco square miles, equal to
eco OF acres being mo than doub the extent OF
territory comprised In the States OF Vermont New
rs6re Msssaohusets Rhooe slani and Coor
Her popr alton IL estimated at 2bo,0oO souls. 10000
q whhh are vhites the remaining 2io,ooo are com
posed OF mixed races but this perhaps, an over est
mate Of tho popu alton nj the present day Me surface
c Ncarasus ssrees,ly diversified with hsi- and val
leys rolling plains rich table lands, broad lakes and
numerous rivers; does daplsy that rough, frow ang
sspoct vsbc in the other portor or this cont nent ira
veIfed by chain OF the Cordilerss Irdoed be~sen
tho Great and Pacific this rocky barrier
10 slmoet impercepble ridge, the highest elevation
acps some lines bers but about Two hundred feet above
the On the Atlantic side Of the lake, however there
higher ranges, anc the majestic peak OF 0lretepc,
isng the centre o. the lake ITSELF Is said to have
altitude OF six thousand feet Az tho voyaser approaches
Nicaragua from the Atlantic ocean, long before he
esicl es sight OF the low, swnmpy and heavily
nmbsred lands OF the Mosquito coast, lie
The peals' OF Chontalcs and Costago in Costa Rioo
towering In the bssy distspce. But on landing In nan
JunD be surpr and saddencd by the change Of view
Ihe heavy tcg ike exb ahons OF the lasoons
svamps In tbe vicinity cut the distant landscape
from sight AZ far the eye can reach one beholds
rotbirg but The low sandy or sluv'l tracn covered
With an slmou I'm pepe'rsble msA OF vapor, sbroodns
TROPICAL vegetation. British nlibusters nicknaued mer
Sauas Of Carib Ipdaps have ught ruocessay the ~id
ftss ard the wilderness, and have Obtained for them
selves Injuries and opuiencc The prncp, commsrcal
Grytown the Atlantic, San Juan del Sur ana Realeo
The Pschc. The two iormsr are well hrosu a. tho
Ats ptc and Pacific termni OF the Ne~ Iork snd Cali
lorna Steamship C,mpsny's tho lsthmas.
Rfaeo the port OF the old city Of Leon some thirty
California San Juan de Nicaragua IL ssid 10 possess tho
best roacstend Of any port In the Mexican Gvh; rs
careble Of shelhrng thousand ships i ls not only
the cole Atlantic sespot OF Nicaragua, but also Of Costa
Rcs and road s In process OF construction which,
wten completed, win trirs all the produce ofeCcsia
Pica San Juan IN lieu OF Punta Arenas the Pacific,
where has heretofore been sent great dra shack TO
the commercial prosperity OF Nicaragua her lack OF
sod road, Sress, snd canals NJ The only road N The he
the late Accesory Transit Company, from Virgin Bay 70
ssn Juan del sur, distspcs Of twelve miles. II Is
done hy raive labor directed by Northern intelligence
ard energy By the san Juan river, which h~ been
somewhat improved by the ssme company and by the
ai OF Nicaragua the voysger nay travel from ESQ 70
acc mllss into The very hart OF the country. From the
northern extremity Of this lake to the lake Of Nicaragua
II Journey Of tghtsen miles and thence you pro
coed By water nfty miles urher inland Thess lakes
connected by the river T,ssp~ the great body OF which
some yesvs since dsappeared under srouud In the ow
lands the Mosquito thore we'll NJ IN the detse for
est, along hc banks ~ the Fan Juan and Indian
there iess Intermittent fever and asue to be
" mo- believe. however v
prorcr attention 10 diet aud other sanitary precsuors
Nortbsrrer may seon become scclmssd, and IN nine
ont OF ten attack OF fever The attacks
ordinarily slight easiy broker, and very seldom at
tended with fetal results. Daring my two years rest
tents Usually ttahy IN the north Bot u II not 70
dsre6 ur in the lov ards amid rank vegetation,
sssrs, IN yellow rnro o. Ise Iin weakness, toss
vitality srd ohcr sCcgB &ri neuts o chronic bllors az
eecrs Nton y0o fescb re lake, bowever. you seem
70 breathe another air. you bale the brscnr atmosphere
srd iSol txtierauon Of srrs for wfich You cannot
secoss. wtears Sp ,s.' ss.lS, y lake nearly Wy
suYrounced by The mssnnont scenery, feels
HE courspy IN hts veins The sessous In Niosrssus
wt ,nS S y. s, ys 81 s s
| tie wet season may be set down a. commencing
in May sns eop,inuins ali hCvemeer; this. bow.
sTrDs the Or sr % period ave * less intensity and shorter
Ss,, upcn 'bc plains and Iowlspds severe the ground
becomes ractedsrd cracked the cattle deer Sc seek the
s,s., u u,,.te has been made by many IN .upposns
tbat the country more unhealthy during the rainy than
l dfy ,cntu Capt Henderson. Of the British navy, wrote
home The wet season, ~ IA empbstcally denomi-
rated not considered the ~ dsease here s
isely otherwise In the whole Of the West Indies AZ The
rsspprs November noytherns begin W blow and last
rah little variation til March. during which time the
mornings and evennss are OF pleasant GOODNESS, and
whs, IN this country d underutood 70 be . wet month,
might be considered November daynn England dry
porther n hessbf agreeable, and iuvsorsng after the
rorth nd has acquired sufficient force the atmosphere n
c,eay of a sulc exhastons and the interval between
Novpmbr ard Nsy ift be called "wintes II certainly
Inc npes virtcY on r,obo vsletudnarens and aged
| people IA s the cnste Of Paradise" ne commcrcia