The morning call., 1890-11-30
FROM PANAMA.
latest News About the Canal and
;. From South America.

(: Inc following news from the 1StnmuS Oh
Panama, Central and South America is
taken from the Star and Herald of Novem-
Der 18Th, that came by mail last evening.
The steamer Diseoverer, from Liverpool,
ran ashore near Carthagena ON October 18th.
She was pulled off the reef by Spanish
gqnbOat.
A dispatch from Bogota was received at
Panama on November 1st respecting the
action of the Legislature on the canal. The
Senate, after long debate. decided that four
million francs must be paid when the Canal
Company is re0rganiZed, and four million
francs must be paid yearly for four sue
cessive years. The Government is to re-
ceiye shares to the value of ten million
francs. 4 delegation from the Panama
Chamber of Commerce went at once to
Bogota to confer with President Nunez and
TO urge him to continue the Legislature a
few days:over time, so as TO finally pass the
CONCESSION. He offered to do everything III
his ROVER TO assist in forwarding the con-
cession and specially to induce the members
to remit the cash payments, but he did not
give the delegation much hope that this part
of the,sckeme would be M diTed.
The Promoter of Barranguilla recently
said, respecting the Panama Canal: We
learn on good authority that the demands of
the Senate renderit impossible to effect an
arrangement, and that il the new commit
tee, inSaccord with the desires Of the coun-
Try, do not show a'mere lenient disposition
Lieutenant WySe viii leave for Europe on
November 18th. Colon bia Will have repre-
Sented a disposition similar to that Of The
dog in the maDger, by neither reaping adj
vantageS itself nor allowing others 10 do so.
The failure of the negotiations for an extern
sion of the time for the construction of the
Panama Canal will breathe fresh life into
the Nicaragua Canal scheme. and, when
the Colombian Government becomes more
ienienty disposed, il will be toe late.
When Kingston. Jamaica, was swept over
by great fire, some years ago, the people
OF Colon sent S2eo0 at ouce. When the lat
ter town was devastated by fire the only
contribution from Kingston was $500, no
part of which was received to date. The
Star and Herald says: People in Jamaica
aud the West Indies apparently imagine that
suffering in Colon Is not to be compared to
suffering in Martinique or elsewhere; in
deed, that people ON the isthmus are like
the fallen angels of the Miitonc mythology
punishable and unburnable. \ month and
a half having elapsed since the catastrophe,
the worstiS now over; and 1t seems to us
that the time has passed when assistance
could be effectively rendered and very Crate
fully received.
Among the bills passed at BOgota recently
were those appropriating 100000 for The re-
lief Of Colon sufferers and taxing every pack
Of playing-caT.iS 81 cents
Smallpox at GuayaQulI wac epldemlc. On
October 27th an incendiary fire was started,
which cost a loss of $4,000.
The schooner W. 5. Bovine arrived at
Guayaqnil ON October 51sl. after quick run
of thIrty-nine days from San Francisco.
Professor Raimondi, a distinguished natu-
ralist, died at Pacasmayo, Peru, on October
26th, after a long illness. He had lived
there for many Years and was engaged in
preparing an elaborate natural history of
Peru. In collecting material he made long
trips in the interior and among the cannibal
tribes who live at the headwalers of the
Amazon. His death was regarded as a ma
tional calamity and a monument will be
erected 10 him, while a pension Will be
granted to his family.
Work on the reconstruction of the Yer
rugas Viaduct was begun under the direc-
ton OF Mr.. Dogherty, distinguished Ameri-
can engineer, but he was victim to the
dreaded Eerrugas fever and was sent TO the
Lima Hospital. 1t is not thought he can
recover.
A report on public instruction in Peru has
been submitted to Congress, which shows
III schools of primary instruction are main
tanned; 1,435 scholars are enrolled, So, 276 in
public schools, 14,17j in private schools,
1884 in schools of benevolent societies.
After January /, 1891, Callao Will be the
only port through which opium will be per-
niittad to he landed