The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-24
PANAMA NOTES.
A Budget From Panama, Central
and South American States.

Tie Pacific Mail steamer Coima arrived
yesterday from Panama. The following
summary is taken from Panama exchanges
dated as late as April Goth:
COSTA RICA.-Under the heading, "Our
Roads 10 The Atlantic" the Partido Const-
tucional, a paper published in San j lose, the
capital, remarked as follows on April 9tn ::
The country is to be congratulated on the
termination Of the Northern Railroad. Dur
ing the last year more than 1000 persons
have visited LimOn. our Atlantic port due
to the railroad having been completed, and
all have enjoyed the trip and the beauties of
the scenery at the side of the road"
GUATEMALA.-lhe Bien Publico of Quez-
altenango reports the Government has paid
DR.. Fernando Cruz $500, GOO for his library,
which will be moved to Quezaltenango and
opened 10 the public.
ECUADOR.-Ac correspondent writing from
Bababuyos on April 10Th says: The rainy
season continues, and although the PaTacOl
and San Pablo rivers are dry on some days,
Immediately afteTwaTd they rise with such
astounding rapldlty that the whole of the in
terror portion of this city is inundated and
those who wish to visit friends or to 20 to
market have 10 do so in canoes. The cocoa
crop will be snort, as the bulk of the cObS
have dried Oh The trees and will produce no
beans. All unite IN deplOring the loss Of
the crop"
PERU.-At the request Of the Ecuadoran
Charge d'AfaireS IN Lima the Peruvian
Government has ordered the arrest of
Signor Roberto Audrode, who has recently
published a work entitled Historical
Epis0deS-M0ntalyo and Garcia Moreno"
Commenting on this the CalaO Porvenir
says: The book will probably have been
written in bitter language, since Garcia Mo-
reno LETT IoWer IN Ecuador with melan-
choly reputation, and Juan MOntalvo is a
writer of brilliant talent who handles his
knowledge of dictatOIial defects with that
steel pointed criticism aud bitter irony
which can be employed with as full effect in
Spanish as in other languages. But why q
critic OF EcuadOTian public men who re-
side sin Lima should be arrested it is difficult
TO understand"
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.-The Buenos
AyTes standard says: Although il Is posi-
lively asserted in government circles that
the Rothschld Moratorium is concluded the
market shows no sign Of improvement. Last
week, it is true, the gold premium declined
. points or about per cent, but on Monday
rumOrs of an uneasy character were aloat,
due TO which the gold quotation has risen to
800. The public are quite convinced that
the tendency Is upward, and that g0ld at
200 is within measurable distance.
An uneasy feeling prevails about the Port
Works, the original contract for which was
for the sum OF g. SEQ, 600 sterling. 1t appears
that although little more than half of the
works is done the sum already expended, to
the end of January, IS 93,0j0,000, and
Messrs. MaderO declare that a further sum
of e.. SOC, 900 will be required for their COM
pletlOn.
Public confidence, meantime, Is more ser-
0Usly disturbed by the rumOr of impending
issues OF paper money than by any other
circumstances. A / one time f00,000,000, at
another 150000,000. is said to be the proposed
amount OF new issue.
The actual Minister of Finance Is known
to be decidedly opposed to any fresh issue.
We have been, however, SO accustomed 10
see several Finance Ministers within twelve
months that the public feels that at any
moment he may be supplanted BY somebody
else, who may adopt the old motto: The
more paper money the better"
Rural products, the real wealth of the
country, have fallen prodigi0usly in value
Sales Of horned cattle have been reported at
3 shillings per head and even leSs-namely,
2R shnplaSterS Sheep may be freely
b ught at price equivalent to half crown
English, that is 80 per cent lower than they
were thirty years ago. The current price
for sugar is e3S sterling per ton, or more
than double what it Is in Europe,