New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-24

With the accounts Of his motions gven BY travellers
IL was Sunday morning, April T. we bad all
breakfased on board the Sonora and it was in vain
that the natives tempted US 10 eomprar their ed-
bles. the whistle shrieked and away went my late
frI.v travellers and plunged into the deep green Of
mountain gerges, a lingering train of thin, blue
smoke slowly foated away among the palms. the
yu,tures returned 10 their roosting places among
the cocoaputs and all Was as silent and desolate of
human hopes and sympithIes as though tornado Of
Anglo-SaIon life had not just passed along There
il something Ipressbly sad in being thus left by
the tide-waye of travel alone like wounded sea-
bird upon the shore. The telegraph operator sat in
HE little Office and talked to me and TO man in
Aspinwall at the same time The latter announced
AT ii o'clock, while yet sat there that the passen
GERS had arrived at the waters of the Atlantic and
in an hour and three-qusrters more they were off
for New York A path winding among he'thatched
huts of the negrOesthe same ferociOus savages who
two years ago massacred so many of our people
and along the shore where the waves of the rising
tide meet the descending tide Of squald misery and
fifth. led me TO steep ascent TO the narrow gate
wav. wide enough for loaded mule, which admit
ted me into the town. Ny attention was attracted
by crowd of men and boys at the end of one Of the
streets; il was not from affinity for the people, nor
vet BY the attraction OF gravity that was drawn,
for although it was Sunday there seemed to be an
unusual amount OF levlty IN the crowd nevertheless
went on with the tide.
The efhgy of most respectable looking man was
hanging by q rope. He had on genteel black frock
coat, fashionable bellcrOwned hat, and gray whsk.
ers. | thought it was some obnoxious citizen who
was To be made an example OF. l asked the most
intelligent looking man / saw, who was being hon.
ored but he shook his head. l asked boy who
was running by me, his face full of fun, and he only
shouted CARLO" and hurried away as though he
e AIRED to be too late. The light broke upon me at
length. They were celebrating the death of mel.
apcboly man who lOurished about the time OF Herod
the Tetrarcb. and who in tit Of remorse and des-
pondeucy for treason TO his Master went and
hanged himself" Poor Judas for it was indeed
that distinguished individual. They fired Chinese
crackers under him, pelted him with stones and
dirt and finally set fire TO quantity OF gunpowder
in the figure, and it fell. The excitement was great,
the crowd fed in every direction, jackass wheeled
and ran away with q water-cart, the bells OF the
Cathedral rang, and the lean dogs in every part OF
the town set up furious barking. The boys set off
with the remains of Judas and disappeared amid
cloud of dust, Christian boys with white cotton
clothes, yellow faces and straight hair, ditto boys
with no clothes, black faces aud curly hair. Peace
was at length restored in the streets by all the dogs
falling upon any one dog that dared to run. 1t is
thus that they annually heap indignites upon the
unfaithfu disciple ages after they have ceased to
show the forms of respect to his Master, and make
the sinner of eighteen centuries ago the scape-goat
of the sins of this.
Panama with all its advantages of position is no
exception to the decline Of industry and civilization
TO be met with in the Spanish Republics. You are
met on every hand by ruins, massive walls over.
grown with vines and shrubs, all the buildings
erected by the enterprise of the colonies are going
to ruin since their emancipation, and few new ones
take their place. PhlanthrOpists may sigh and spin
plausible theories to explain the fact but 1t does not
seem possible for the dark to progress IN civ
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them by the more vigorous race. The indigenous
race which makes up the great mass of the Popula-
ton, except in the immediate vicinity of the rail-
road where are many negroes are 80 entirely con-
tented with their condition that the influence OF the
sight Of luxury about them does not seem to slim
ulate their ayarce or create any desire to emula-
ton. l verify believe they are more barbarous to-.
day than before the cOnquests. The rude arts that
were practiced by their ancestors are more rudely
practiced by their descendants.
The fen Americans in town have recently graded
a carriage. way leading out OF town few miles 10
some pleasant openings, or rolling pasture lands,
where one may enjoy pleasant afternoons drive.
The wealthy natives promised to bear a portion OF
the expenie but declined it after the road was COM
meDced, and although they do not scruple to follow
the example Of the Americans aud make use OF the
road they have never contributed to the expense Of
its construction.
But the position of Panama justifes the fore
thought of It's founders; aud though the development
of the resources of the countries bordering on the
Pacific has, until the last ten years, been slow, 1t
will heDcefOrth be rapid, and Panama must tee its
influence, and if there is not enterprise enough In
digenous to the soil that which is exotic will take its
place; its walls which serve but to keep out the
fresh air and its ruins which comprise nearly if not
quite one half of the city, must be used 10 I'LL up the
moats and extend its limits. The Bay of Panama,
since its first discovery, has been celebrated for its
beauty; upon it's shores are to be found every va.
riety of scenery within the tropics, except those
that are characteristic of coral formations. The
only specimens of coral that have found at To-
bogo, and they are diminutve. This is a curious
fact when one considers that the opposite shore OF
the sthmus and the islands on the coast are chiefly
made up of it. But the Bay of Panama ls studded
with islands Of sizes as various as their FORMS from
the regal SUBMITS, where the clouds gather and
inger all day, to the little rock. where the pecans
while away the Gstless hours Of REPETITION. have
good reasons for believing that there are few
healthier places within the tropics than the town
and Bay Of Panama. | am ust told, since the last
sentence was written, by the chief officer OF the De-
catur that during the thirteen months that that ves
eel has been lying here they have not had death on
board.
There are now lying in the bay the British mail
steamer from the South, ii. NJ frigate Havana, and
our own Decatur The Pacific Mail Steamship
Co.'S steamer Sonora and the California, the plo-
neer ship on the California coast. She Is kept here
in readiness to take up the mails in case the regular
steamer fails to make her trip, which, believe mas
never yet happened in the nine years that the Com
pany have CARRIED the mails. The pioneers OF Can,
fornia have claim on the Company for that Old
ship, and when her career has ended, which ~ 70
be hoped will be long hence, her tmbers VIII De In
demand for canes and snuif-boxes. -
The Company's depot is at group OF small
islande owned by them. about three miles from