The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1851, Page 2

a INTERESTING LETTHRS. = = conn Alabama, Our Eastern Correspondence. ~annnannniaiitiaiaitiins join nove: Bosvox, April 25, 1851. Our Washington Correspondenee. inte: nog one th polechloarsh came pe be Some Hea of the Election of Sumner—The way Wasuinoton, April 16, 1961. | for Mr. Buchanan, which he could not otherwise | as aecomplished— What sort of a man is he?— The Heroine of Tampico. receive. Old party lines, in this State, are wi, Massachusetts Politics. ues cannot be revived. The ‘The Mexican claims are all adjusted, so far as ‘the commissioners are coacerned. They have fin- ished their work, and made their awards. One of them, which, from the peculiar circumstances under which it arose, bas excited no little interest, not nly at Washington, but throughout the country, was that of damages, losses, &e., to our worthy Consul at Tampico, Capt. Chase, well known for hhis hospitality and kindness to all who visit that place. [is noble wife, most appropriately termed ‘the heroine of Tampico, has been the principal agent in presenting and supporting the claim, as she wus in throwing open the important place where she resided to the occupation of the American forces out, and the old Vnion party, with a majority of twenty thousand Votes in the State, are opposed to a general system of internalimprovements. They are sath: the tariff of 1546; but, for harmon: acquiesce in some slight modifications. Thoy are opposed to a bank, and to the anaexation of Cae or Cuba. Upon Sis platiores we shall rally, and, my word for it, the balance of power will be iu our bands, and we shall exercise a controlling in- fluence in the election. Hon. A. H. Chappell, Congress from this Stake gw | district (the third) pointed Consul to Havana. probably be represented formerly a member of ill be returned from this in the stead of Mr. Owen, a ‘The first district will Mi Bartow, of Savan- - Inthe second, Gen. Eli Warren, of Houston, 1 think will be elected. From the fourth, Hon. Charles Mi y, of Dekalb, is spoken of as a can- didate. In Hackett’s district Mr. Chastain, of Gihner county, will be the Union candidate, and will be elected. Mr. Cobb's district will be repre: sented by Mr. James Jackson, of Walton, or Mr. W.H. Hull, of Athens, the first @ cousin of Mr. Cebb, and the latter his bosom friend and law part- ner. Mr. Toombs will go back, and is the only one of the old members who will be a candidate. In Stephens’ district, a contest is understood to ing on between Mr. e, of Morgan, and . A. HL, Kenan, of Baldwin—l! think the latter ‘The commissioners admitted the justice of the @laim lon since, and have now made their award ent of their authority, expressing it isnot within their competency e the amount, in consideration of . At @ recent interview with the board, Mrs. C. was asked what recompense she expectedfor the deeds of valor and high daring which she performed at the fall of Tampico. To which she replied—** Nothing but what I have al- yeady received—the approbation and gratitude of my adopted country.” will pre’ Our whole delegation will be thorough- rs. C. is an Englishwoman by birth. Her an- | going Union Compromise men. mwer is worthy of the noblest Roman matron in the It is understood among the knowing ones, that best days of Rome. Pestivs. | Mr. Stephens is holding back for Mr. Berrien’s seat in the Senate of the United States; and if so, he Correspondence, stands a fair chance of ousting the old fox. Judge (8.C.) April 23, 1851. s and Considerations re- | specting ihe Attitude of South Carolina, ant tre Dispositions of Great Britain—Movements in the other Cotton Stotes—Northern Movements—Leater | Berrien is truly an unfortunate politician, for after waiting even longer than Stephens did last summer to see which was the strong party, he missed the figure and fell on the wrong side of the fence, and ‘s now doubted by the Fire Eaters, and openly dis claimed by the Uniom men. As things progress : ate? sitdents ie | and come to ahead, I will post you up, if desirable ao The Presidential Question and | under the signature of : ; P men > sneer iaenente | New Orveays, April 17, 1851. While th svernor of South Carolina is out on | » Api a a tour of inspection of the military organization of Internal Improvement Co a—The New Or- leans and Jackson Railroad—The Expected Arrival of Parodi—The Coatzacoaleo River—Sporting Intelligence, $e. The advent of twoimportant features were looked for yesterday—the arrival of Parodi, and the m ing of the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad Con- vention. The , however, only took place. | The Convention was held in the Lyceum Hall of | the Second Municipality, the largest room in the the State—while the local press with singular | evincidence of sentiment, are urging forward the | alternative of separate secession; it is lamentable to | witness the supinen the fatuity, the fanaticism, | and the perilous incredulity of the North. But we wndertake even Mr. Webster will be eonvineed of the e South Carolina be- fore another m There is no x of urrounding South- odi is to give her concerts. A ern States are dd. Not only so, | el : but the secession © ut is actually in yp were in attendance, from : in Ge = na and ppi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. dy inf encou c ; ganized by the appointme an gir go, Rapala, The con organized by the appointment shop pomp of Mr. James Robb as President, ten Vice Presi- mdence going on among the f dent, and four Secretaries. Mr. Robb is one of our eotton States, comprehending the outline of a | most wealthy bankers, and is a friend of all rail- eombined plan o on, a3 the first experiment, and of the separa’ sion of South Carolina, i rcan be done. 1 nerally. On taking the chair, he alluded great importance of the object before the Convention, the great advantages to be de- rived from i id that it was the system improvements through which the enabled, by its competition, to rob tenance which alone belonged to New He urged that no effort should be lost which could tend to regain for it @ prosperity which its natural advantages haddestined it to enjoy. Ile said that Louisiana should rank as the flag State of lavery | the South; but that, unless her interests were pre- ab. | served by iron bands, and her advantages secured and | to her, she must dwindle down to less than the se- Indies, has | questered and isolated State of Arkansas. He con- of the philanthropic | cluded by stating that the ends and the means ve, especially where they | for carrying out the railroad should alone be ‘n is not the thing at all. Far | looked to, and that all sectional interests and feel- cn wry au confidence « of Great B th Car jon of Sout te ld for th ive her a surd. her Majest ety etiec ings should be t he delegat sburg had supposed the Convention was a general one, and had come down | to present their plan for a railroad from Jackson to Selma. Being doubtful of their position, they ad- | dressed a letter to the Convention, to know on what | ney were to be admitt and, if at all, | with the full powers of delegates?’ After some dis rocity e, down to the defensive in case of necessity, tac in- er than fail of her s of cotty “ Upon this sul ere isan un- | n was then offered, to refer the projects of the janding be New Orl and Jackson Railroad to a commit- b is | tee compe aad the agents ¢ of different delegates, for their report. ealeulated to vreas the | An amendment was offered, embracing all other movements li ra | plans in which the city of New Orleans was interest- The proceedings in the No amoag | ed, including the Vicksburg and Selma road, the the politicians oi all partic adapted | Jackson and Canton roadgand the Opelousas and to give strength 0 pre as road. his was strongly objected to dominant in this iving | * ie New Orleans and Jackson delegates, and for a me great excitement prevailed between then | and the outsiders, or other delegates. The Vick: | burg delegation, for instanee, were for leaving the hall at once, if they were to be charged with inter- fering in amy manner with the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad. The members from New Or- leans said it was not a general convention was called fur the purpose of building a from New Urleans to Jackson, and no other; that, after this question was disposed of, if they wanted to entertain other projects for building’ railroads from Kentucky to the Balize, or from Texas to the Moon, they were readyto go in for them, but the New Orleans and Jackson Kailroad must be settled first. After a considerable storm, and @ good deal of fan and by-play, the resolutions were witadrawn, and a substitute ‘offered, by which it was resolved to create a committee of ways and means, to report on the mode of raising the wind for the building of the conternplated railroad, and another committee ans, to report on the several routes to be pro- do no » hailed in the North as the very essence of conciliation; but they will met do; and in good time all the outstanding can- didates for the Presidency will diseover that to re- store the Union to peace and good feeling, a broad- ader and longer and stronger than | the compromise measures of 1450—will have to be built; and as we have heretofore intimated, the framework of this new platform will have to be of Southern live osk, and other Southern timber, or Phe cotton States of the South will be entirely oat of the question in the next Presidential election. And what ix more may come to pass, that the @ampaign of 1552 will be made the instrument fora om dined plan of secession, unless some strong and ies for the past and securities re are conceded to the South. No man hereafter will answer for the South, or for the safety of the Union, who shall attempt to stand upon a noncommittal platform like that ofGen. Taylor. That sort ef thing is out of the question absolutely. If Gen. Scott attempts it, inorder to keep all straight with Seward & Co-; and if it @hould happen that a Nortkern combination should elect him, the Union, even if the South waits till after the election, will be broken up. The Southern States cannot consent to give in their adhesion to a government of which Seward will be the prime minister, and (ireele: e tem. No, sir: the cotton States intend to mould their evertares to the North, if South Carolina will agree; and if offered, they will be accepted or rejected at | the bazard of secession. That is the very best which the Northern States can exp Mr. Buchanan seems to ha sed. s! There are three routes before the convention, and all have strong advocates. One is, to commence he line at Madisonville, across Lake Pontchartrain, and to connect with this city by steamboat An- other route is around the banks of Lake Maurepas to the Mississippi line. And a third route, and which | think the most feasible, is, to run from New Orleans up the banks of the Mississippi river to Baton Rogue, and from thence to diverge and run a straight Line to Jackson, This route will certainly be more beneficial to the planters of Louisiana on the coast, if not to the cotton planters of the great- | est portion of Missieippi, and I think it will be adopted. The convention held an evening session esterda nd adjourned until this morning. A Petter spirit seems bad oh pv to-day, and things are ome perception ofthe tene state ofthings. His recent letter to the Virginia | going on emoothly. I will advise you of the result Geutral Southern Rights Association indicates his | im my next magacity. Had lis plan of 36 30 for California been | _ Parodi is expected here to-day, and by farthest, ry upon by Congre « | tomorrow. Preparations are being made, by a the very probable n g California ten millions for it as a i to the South, might have oo large number of our Italian citizens, to give her a handsome reception on her arrival, and a eerenade at night, She has had apartments taken for ber at the st. Louis Hotel. Col. Bartlett, U. S. Commissioner of t xican Bhaeon and the Interior—Railvoads+— Population— | boundary, left here Lapp Hi to join Col. Graham, The Union and Polit & - of the Engineer e nd chief of the Astronomi- ies, He, Hen» Hr | cal corps, at El Paso. The line will be run from Among the numerous and interesting letters from | 5) Paso to the head waters of the river Gila, and givin peace olerin aveided Lacon, Georora, April 11, 1851 r, be made | A man by the name of William Reed, alias J y. Davis, who had reprevented himself a# a cotton | breker up'in the Washita country, and in the parish Our | Of Bienville, succeeded in purchasing cotton to the | amount of some $60,000 or 8,00), with cuunterfeit $50 bills on the Union 7 of Louisiana. He had al parts of the world, which you send out daily, | from thence across to the Pacific. : through the columns of your unrivalled newspaper, | _ A gentleman who lately arrited fom aie ay coalco river, informs c cenit co Ihave not seen ene from this place, and, a# it i | produces the finest mahogany in the world, and that becoming one of the most important in the Empire | te met © British bark coming out of the river with State of the South, I have determined, if agreeable | @ full cargo A. he trade will certainly become very #0 yea, to furnish for your columns a letter occa- | Yaluable, and our enter ra sn thie regard, slonally, in regard to inatters of interest occurring | we are generally belind-hand, and it only goes to fm and around the city. show the es n of our : dmprimis, Macon is near the centre of the State, | S¥8tem. The Britis Be ony gels @onnested with Swvannah by the Central Railroad | Yamitemely foe ‘a year—but ie sn ants to ome handred and ninety-one miles in length. An | give every possible degree of information relative ther line of road, extending in a northwesterly | pa ane de tompe bad tae poss roses my hoe all the . fi : 1y,, | advantages of trade a commerce that come in Girestion, connects us with the Georgia and th» | theip way; and when they cannot do things fairly, State road, at Atalanta, one hundred and four they play the “Chatfield game,” and do it fouily. im length. | Our consuls, on the other hand, get a enough A third line branches off in a southwesterly a’- | '¢ keep them from starving, and instead of attend- ‘ | ing to the duties of their offices, and studying the section, fifty miles, penetrating the richest and most | interest and polisy of the home government, they Productive cotton country in the Un A fourth | neglect it by trying to make a penny or two some Bine ie in process of construction to Columbus, and, | other way. For as great # country as ours, we cer- under the direction of that energetic and public | t#inly have the meanest and most penuriou ited gentleman, Major Howard, will be com: | ¢rhiment on earth. Our consular system wants a din about twelve months. acon will then the depot of four great lines of railroad, connect- ing ber vith all portions of the State. The next | ‘witer we are expecting to receive large additions be our commerce, through the multiplied facilities @f ingress and egress which are now afforded. Lat tion it increasing with most astonishing ra- ity; and, notwithstanding the many houses wi ‘erg, | thipped the cotton to a D Orleans house for sale “ledge by ny (Waliams, Phillips &¢ Co.), and in the countey had Everything in tle future looks brurht for Macon.» | feprerented himself as Mr. Williams, one of the ‘The tion row amounts ie ukeus eight thow- | firm. He had aleo #windied the house of Cleeve- sand, and at the election for delegates Ce eke von | land, Brothers & Co. out of 850), by a forged draft. ven! ve a majerity of over two hundred for | The accomplished epeculator, ewindler, and forger the Union ticket, whicn Will be greatly increased | Wa arrested yesterday, and committed for exami- M the North stands firm) b i ; eures d by the last y the Compromise mea tion. amgrese. “The second epring meeting of the Metairie Course é Macon politicians ex: races closed on the 15th instant. Jt was the four aod infivense in the I-apire Sate ot (as Tet | ile day, the purse $700, and three of the cleanest the Albany regency did in your noble State, but limbed and ewiftest footed nags entered for it that without any ofthe corruption of teat world-renowned | 02 be scared up, viz.: Charmer, Louisd’or, and The day was delightful, the track in adoon. iled id order, and greater excitement eoterie. It is here that the Union mo . Vvement first eom- meneed; it was in Macon that the hardest battle has been known for some years. It is evti- ‘wae fonght—and it was here the fire-eaters received ated that there were 3,000 persons on the track, their death-blow. and for New Orleans ‘that's some. large Mr. Howell Cobb will be the candidate of the number of ladies were also in attendance. What Unien party for Governor, and the convention made it more exciting, there were four heats ran. whieh nominates him will also nominate Mfc and one dead heat, to decided, between Charmer and Lovied’or, thongh hundreds swore that Lovisd’or had won it by a clean nose and saddle. Rigadoon ell lame in Craw Beehbanan for the Presideney. A Souther probably Jones, of T » Will be “ploced apt the tieket with Mr. B. Georgia will not go into a onvention, but act as a “guerrilla” ig AP 3. with | of our senatorial conflict, by the sake, would | Sumner. on on this point, they were admitted. A reso- | | I suppose I can safely take it for granted that the telegraph has made you acquainted with the close olection of Mr. During the two days of fival conflict, the town was excited, for it was known on Wednesday morning that not only were the Sumuer men ia larger force than they had generally been on ballot- ing days, but also that one of the whig members from Fall River had resolved to obey the instruc- tions sent to him by his constituents, to vote for the coatition candidate, and that one of the hunker democrats had left the State on business in another part of the Union. The whigs, therefore, were much cast down, and when, at 2 P. M., it was pro- claimed that Mr. Sumner was chosen, they were measurably prepared for the announcement; but their spirits were raised on learning that this was a false report, it appearing that a vote, which had been counted a blank by the committee, was not viewed in that light by the House. Shrewd men, however, among the opponents of Mr. Sumner, ro- gret this decision; for if the vote of Wednesday had been allowed to stand, the right of that gentleman to the seat might have been contested in the Senate, and the whole proceedings quashed. Viewing the matter in this light, the coalitionists were quite ready to give the matter up, and to abide the result of further trials. The remainder of the day was spent in unsuccessful ballotings. On Thursday, both parties rallied, and on the second balloting Mr. Sumner was chosen. Great was the shouting at the Commonweilth office, while the T'ranscript consoled itself by saying that Mr. Sumner, in all respects, save one, (opposition to the Fugitive Slave law,) is a whig,—a statement too ridiculous to be contradicted here, but which it may be as well to notice for people elsewhere. Mr. Sumner is not a whig, and even if he had been one at the com- mencement of the contest, he would be somiatiing more or less than a man. He has encountere: every possible opposition at the hands of the whig and owes his election to democrats, and he will noz be found voting in the Senate for whig measure One of the great charges advanged by our fre ers against the whigs is, that they passed the tive Slave law for the purpose of getting an ameud- ment to the tariff in the protective direction; and now we are toldthat Mr. Sumner is to aid them in carrying out the scheme! Any such idea is the height and depth of absurdity combined, aad can be seriously entertained only by the merest of d villers. All the aid that the cottonoera - at the hands of Mr. Sumner will their purposes the millionth part ivati On all the great t athe two parties, Mr. Sumae’ intimate personal friends are the greate Christendom, will be found acting, and voting, and speaking with the democrats. He belongs to that new class of public inen who are fast coming upon the stage of active life, and who would as soon think of avowing a belief in witchcraft as in any of the fogeeisms that the old whigs call vital principles, and whose only vitality consists in their resembling the | spasmodic jerkings ¢f a hanged criminal under the | action of a galvanic battery. These men, among | whom Mr. Sumner is a chief, do not loo backward for wisdom, but forward with ra Our | free soilers are mostly free traders as well—all of | them who possess talent and influence, belonging to that order of men who sympathize with Cobden and his supporters in England. 1 may here say, for the benefit of your numerous Southern readers, that if it is supposed by them that Mr. Sumner is a brawling abolitionist, who will be constantly bully- ing the Senate about slavery, they do him great in- | justice. He, however, is a’ gentleman, a scholar, | and a man of high character, end will not step be- yond the limits of the constitution to effect any pur- poze, no matter how much he may have it at heart. As respects his views on the slavery question, they are in no respect materially different from those of almost every man in Massachusetts who could have been elected to the Senate under almost any com- bination of circumstances. Ie will not vote, on matters concerning that question, any ways differ- ent than Mr. Winthrop would have voted thereon, had he been elected; and between Mr. Sumner and some whigs of identical views with Mr. Winthrop, the legislature was compelled to choose. As to electing an old-fashioned democrat, nothing short of a miracle like that which clothed the dry bones with flesh, and made them live and breathe again, | could have effected that. Was it very likely that such a miracle would be vouchsated? and if not, was it worth while waiting for its occur- rence? One chance only was there for electing a hunker democrat: the whigs could at any mo- ment have united on Mr. Hallett, and have chosen him, #0 far as the House was concert ed, supposing the hunker democrats to ha united with them; but then the election would h: been prevented by the Senate, which would have er gone over to the Somerville Lunatic Asylum candidate than have adopted the learned Com- | missioner. Still, the whigs, by electing him in the House, could have given a splendid proof of their devotion to the Union, and of their attachment to — the Fugitive Slave law, of which he is the sworn, aad called, and chosen a in Massachussetts: a perfect Armidas de Gaul, a veritable Cid, a down- | right (but very fat) Don Quixotte dela Mancha—in | “% and spectacles. | o the South, Mr. Sumner’s election is rather a gain than otherwise. The friend aud advo- cate of a liberal commercial system, he will fa- vor those interests which are most benefited by free trade. Had Mr. Winthrop bee: there would have been another friend of the protec- tion humbug sent to the Senate, whose votes on the slavery question would have not differed from those which Mr. Sumner will cast. It was amusing to watch the under current of olitieal intrigue which was going on during the last ours of the Senatorial contest. Mr. Mills, of Springfield, who has been doing the work of Governor Morton, made a desperate effort to pre- vent the election of Mr. Sumner, just before the last vote was taken, He proposed that the voting should be viva vore, his object being to frighten any whigs from —— “Charles Sumner” to the call of their names. Had thie motion been carried, Mr. Sumner bike oot | have been chosen yesf@rday, for it requires pluck for a whig to say in just so many words what he can do in a quiet way. Even the Fall River votes would all have been given to Mr. Winthrop, bad this motion prevailed. Mr. Mills bas been expecting that Mr. Sumner would be dropped, and that the coalition would be foreed to unite on himself. He used to be a hunker demo- erat of the straighest sort, and filled, in the demo- cratic party of Jackson and Van Buren’s time, the same department that Mr. mirably hiled in the establishment of the respectable Mr. Fagin. He did n’t succeed, this time, in his laudable attempt to serve the State. Rumor says that his Excellency the Governor exerted himself ver her's election ; an dealt very leniently with hi right and left fo upp y,that if he has reall, Mr. the whige, who have hitherto “fone. = interference been the means of umner, he had better have interfered three months ago, and so have saved some fifty or ¢ | electii osular | complete overhauling, aud radical changes should | sixty thousand dollars to the the State ; while free soilers declare that they owe nothing to him, the time | having ore passed when he had any influence toexert. You see that he has cleverly contrived to offend all parties The work of removals is going on with some britkness. In the Middle district, Mr. Frain been removed, and his ¢ conferred on Mr. Farr, a free soil lawyer of Lowell. ort has as- signed the office of Attorney (ieneral to Mr. Ran- toul, supposing he shall not be ele » Congress cond di, it is understood that be new electic he vacant minediately. Mr. Beard, of ell, (dem: id, will be appointed Kegistrar of Pro for Middlesex, in a few days. He is one of the three democrats who etepped aside, last fall, and permitted a new Senatorial ticket to be formed, more favorable to the free soilers than that origin: ally formed. Mr. Robinson will be appoinsed Sheriff of Exsex, it ix F neraily eupposed, as soon as | the Legislature shail have adjourned, he being a member of the Senate. ‘The free eoilers had “great times,” rejoicin, over their victory, last night, at which a good ‘deat of what Webster would cail “jubilant oratory” was uttered. In the country, much powder was burnt. The whigs say that, he whole, perhay it ie all for the best, a they would, in case Mr. Sumner had not been elected, have been compelled to go into the State contest on the pure question of eustaining the Fugitive Slave law; whereas the bat- tle can now be fought solely with reference to looal (COLONNAL Brivexvonr, April 22, 1951. Travel on the New Haven Railroal— The Complaints of Passengers. I wish, through your extensively siroulated paper, to call the attention of the directors of the New York and New Ha Railroad to the miserable accommodation for passengers at their depot in Pridgeport, and their bad arrangement for the de parture of the 10 o'clock, 2) minutes, A.M. train, to New York. Asthe exprese train from New York is due at this place the very moment the above named train is to leave, it i# neoes*ary for it to pase on the tarn- out, outside of the main track. The instant the affairs. early part of the ule. and was | express train moves on immediately follows tae Naugatuck train, stopping directly between the yas- m ehosen, | Noah Claypole #0 ad- | etrenuously to effect Mr. Sum- | and the train whieh is to take them to New York. The conductor sings out, ** All on board for New York,” when a number, to seventy- five, rush for seats from that +; yas saloon, (which this company, in commoy with the Nauga tuck Railroad ny, hire from the Housatonic Railroad Company) h the ticket office, and out of a door two and @ feet in the clear (pro- vided it is not obstructed by the carcasses of some of those loafers which are daily there, staring ladies and modest men out of countenance) passing on the platform, jumping down to the main track, wading through the mud around the rear of the Naugatuck train, and climbing some 2} feet, to the first step leading to the platform of the cars. ‘This operation occure daily ; but I write this more icularly from the position in which I was placed o-day. Having three ladies and two children un- der m; rie Ss see safe on board, I attempted to do so the instant the call was made for the passen- gers. Fortunately, we made our egress from the saloon, passed through the mud around the rear of the Naugatuck train, and rose out of it, through mid air, some three feet, on to the first step, and landed safe on the platform of a car, when, to my surprise, 1 found it in motion, Having a child in my arms, 1 hastily crowded it into the car, and turned to make my escape, When, to my consterna- tion, the way was obstructed by three ladies on the platform, two gentlemen on the steps, and two othe wage & railing, endeavoring to mount the step. Having no time to lose, I plunged, and landed where, yar will take the trouble to look, you will see a length portrait of your humble Our Curacoa Correspondence. servant, Sruck 1v rue Mvp. Curacoa, March 27, 1951. Some Interesting Particulars of the Island of Cwracoa- It may be interesting to some of the readers of | your widely circulated paper, to give them some | idea of this but little known island. It is situated | directly in the course of the southeast trade winds, | | and is consequently one of the most salubrious cli- | mates in the world, the thermometer ranging alter- nately from seventy-eight to eighty-s tis inthe | immediate vicinity of the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Domingo, and Porto Rico; and racaibo, Porto Cabello, Laguayra, and Cora (ports on the Spanish Main). The small quantity of rain that falls here contributes much to the health of the island, and the vegetation is very limited in conse- quence—so much eo, that little or nothing is ex- ported inthe way of fruits. Its principal orts are salt (which usually is raised in large qu 02) goat skins, hides, cochineal, and dyewoods; its im- ports consist chieily of American produce ‘and do- inestics, ough considerable business is done with | the nei ing islands, and some with the mother country ({lolland). Its governntent is very liberal ; its harbors are excellent ; the duty on imports of all kinds is only one per cent; and on vessels coming here in ballast, and taking @ half or whole cargo ot ult, they pay no port charge, thus laying out an in- ducement to trade which few other The dimensions of the island are about fort g and about ten miles wide. [ts popula- tion is about sixteen thousand. Of that number | about one-third are slaves ; the remaining two-thirds consist of Protestants, Catholics, and ae U Our Pacific Ocean Correspondence. "01 TICE. On Boarp Steamer Bonivia, Paciric Ocras, March 6, 1351. The English Mau Steamers in the Pacific.—Amert- cans in South America—Shipments of Specie—The Inhabitants—The English Officers. On the 20th ultimo I found myself a passenger from Valparaiso, on board, bound for Lima; and supposing that a few notes from the stray leaves of a Yankee traveller might amuse some of our friends at home, I have again made an effort to address you. This steamer has been on this station about one year, and is magnificently fitted up, and complete in every respect. 1 have heard many Kecpe sara pre- viously, of the fare on this English line of vessels be- tween Valparaiso and Panama, but I am sure if the living in this boat is a specimen of the whole, they are utterly groundless. The steamer leaving Chile on the 26th of every month carries the English mails, and proceeds direct to Panama, still callin, the intermediate ports in Chile, Bolivia, sal We arrived in Callao on the Sth. The climate on this coast is the most beautiful of any | have ever seen; but when you have said this, you have said all # far as 1 have had an oppor- tunity of judging, Chile appears to be far more fertile than either Bolivia or Pera, but not equal to our own highly favored land. 1 found that in Chile nearly all those engaged in the flouring mills are Americans. Some of them have realized large for- tunes, and all aro doing well. In fact, the larger rtion of the business of all kinds transacted here, is effected by foreigners. The German, lish, and French, have all of them large houses here, and latterly, we Yankees are coming in for our share. | A few years will make @ vast difference in this —. Vehave on board yay amount of silver, in bars and specie, intended for England. ‘This company, until recently, bas had the exclusive right to run steamers on this coast; but this monopoly is now done away with, and in a short time the natives hope to see a few American steamers on the same sta- tion. The price of passage, a few years ago, was very extravagant; but recently a more liberal tariff has been adopted. We pay new $70 from Valparaiso to at ali Peru. Callao, and €120 thence to Panama. We left port with cabin passengers, many of them for Copi- apo, a Chilian port, and where the silver mines are now very rich; but at all the ports in the Southern Any irge shipments are made of either copper or silver. | I was much disappeinted in the aj e of the natives in Peru; especially the women, are very dark, there being a considerable admixture of Indian and ne; the former I thiuk an ad- ge, but not the latter. We have all the fruits of a tropical climate in abundance and cheap; but for a stranger, this is a very expensive quarter of the world. great number of Californiaus have been down on the coast the last few months, to e:- cape the winter there, mest of whom have now returned. Competition is much wanted here; and werea line of American steamers established here, it ix the epinion of many influential merchants, that they would obtain a large share of business, for this company ie not in as good repute as it might be, for more reasons than one; and justly #0, tov. All the officers on this line are Britizh subjects; and they have not the urbanity and kindness towards their passengers, for which onr Yankee captains are #0 justly celebrated. Of course, now I onl; speak from iny own personal observations, althoug! 1 have heard the same remark made by every American who has ever travelled by these boats, and other foreigners, also. But aboard the Boli | With the exception of the captain, (who promenades the poop before breakfast, with his kid gloves, slick and tight, never deigning to exchange a word, except with a pri ced few, and Englishmen) no boat could ibly have a finer set of officers than we have. Mr. Joy, the first officer, and Mr. | crombie, the purser, are at all times attentive to the wants and wishes of all. Our captain, (Captain Williams) | am informed, proceeds to England immediately, to bring out a new steamer for this line. I searcely know how to convey to you an idea of the sterility of the whole of this coast, so far as I have at present seen it. I can say that nothing grows upon it, for leagues and leagues—not a tree or shrub of any kind. In the port of Coquimbho there is not a vestige of anything green, and very little water. In some of the Peruvian ports, they | have no water, except what is brought from a great distance from the interior ; and durtng the whole ear it never rai: Still, the people appear to be appy, and the priests are fat and good natured, and to a stranger, will extend every hospitality and kindness. On board we have, as passenger, Senor Don Ber- nardo Toro, minister from Chili to Pera; speaks English, and is, without exception, one of the most perfect gentlemen I have ever met with; resembling much, T am told, the Chilian minister at Wash- | ington. | ith the exception of California, there is no place I have seen where enterprising mon can realise so much money as they can in these ooun- tries of the Pacific. tn afew years we t see a very great change. Americans are gradually com- ing into these parts, and wherever they settle down, influence is fe! | the: and they are respected. With few exceptions, they all do well, mechanics espo- | cially. Pera pendent . entirely, for her flour, although at the a few mills are erecting in Peru, but the wheat is chiefly imported from Chili. Our steamer is of 800 tons burthen, and of 275 horse power; but eight knots, or eight and a half, | is as much as they can possibly get oat of her. Two | engineers have been sent from Glasgow, where the bout was built, to see if they can imprege her speed. ILDPIRE. An Onsrtiovoaican Cuniosiry.—A few nights since, a mammoth bird, closely resembling the famous stork, was captured on the plantation of Mr. Griffith, near Vernon, Ind., on the Madson and Indianapolis Railroad. The night wat un- usually stormy, when this feathered stranger came hovering about the trees, and finally lighted on a branch near the ground, when it was attac engaged ina very singular fight with a couple of wate dogs. Their loud and repeated barking | aroused Mr. G. and family, who managed with difficulty to ran the bird into a smoke-boase, when it wae seeored and brooght into this city, onthe Madison preket, yerterday. It measures tive feet, when etanding erect, and eight feet six inches from the tip of one wing to the other, when spread. We understand it is the intention of the owner to sell it to the proprietor of the Menagerie, Such « bird ie a se a in these parts. ~ Cincrnnats Bae quiver, April 3, | | discovery made in 1771. The Tehuantepec Route. ‘The annexed translation from a Spanish work, has been kindly furnished by R. W. Moade, Esq., U.S.N. It will be found useful and interesting :— ANNALS or THE “ Ponts Er Cuaussker’s,” Vou. 7. Exrracts rrom Articig No. 102—Isruaus oF Panama—A Memoir, by Mons. Micwen Cugva- LIER, ENGINEER-IN-CulEF oF MINES. In enumerating the lines which may be viewod as worthy of examination with refereace to the 10) communication between the two oceans, as ive, he describes the Ist—*Commencing at the north, there is, first, the Isthmus of Tehusntepec, where the Guascoalco and Chimalapa rivers, running in opposite directions. empty themselves respectively im the Atlantic and Pasite Oceans. The distance between the two oceans, measured on @ airalghs line, is estimated at 220 kelometres,” or 1363 miles. 2d—** More than midway to the other oxtremity ef the hemi-circle, described by Central Amorica, we find Lake Nicaragua commnnloasiog witb the Atlantic by a fine river—the San Juan de Nicara- gua—and situated in the centre of the country, like a prolongation of that ocean, which thus seems to notrate within two or three myreametres of the Pacific,” or 18 # miles. FIRST LOCALITY INDICATED FOR PIERCING THE ISTHMUS. Isthmus of Tehuantepec and Guasacoalvo.—* At this point the Mexican ae is depressed to a remarkable degree. From an elevation like that of Pyrenean peaks, it descends to 2 level that may be compared to that of Lake Beauce: it is crossed by the valley of a broad and deep river—the Guasacoalco—which curves, first, in a direction parallel to both sea shores—that is to say, tho east and west coasts—then continues northward until it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.” (Plate 65, Bho harbor forming the mouth of the Guasaco- alco is one of the best found at any of the rivers emptying into the Gulf—better than that of the Mississippi itself. In the time of Cortez, attention was turned to- wards this isthmus. After Cortez, people were much | taken up with the project of opening a canal there; but it was no more thought of after an uaexpected | | Among the artillery of the fortress of San Juan d@Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, there were Py sity some cannons cast at Manilla, in the Phillipines. Now, before 1067, the Spaniards neither doubled the Cape of G Hope nor Cape Horn in order to reach the Phillipines, but carried on all their com- merce with Asia across Mexico, by the galeon of Acapuleo. It could not be conceived how these cannons were brought from Manilla to Vera Cruz— how they crossed the Mexican continent; for it was impossible to carry such heavy burtheu: Acapulco to Mexico, and from there to Vera Cruz. It was finally found, written ina chronicle of antepee, that these nons had been brought from Manilla to Tehuan! ¢ across the sea, and thence by way of the isthmus, ascending the Chi high as possible, and then crossing by point where good navigation commenced on the i leos. The public attention was forcibly h this relation, | The vieoroy, Don Antonio Bucareli, gave orders | to two engineers—Don Augustin Craimer and Don Miguel de ‘Coral—to examine the route in detail. ‘Their exploration was very imperfect : they took no levels—they determined no heights—and their con- | clusions in favor of a canal between the two oceans | by that route, were strongly tainted with the pre- mature public enthusiasm, notwithstanding that they knew that by the Guasacoalco two-thirds of the isthmus is crossed with difficulty—that the port of Malpacco, (which is just above that of lagCraz, and | situated at the confluence of the Saravia,) would | still be 22 Castilian leagues from the sea (about 110 kilometres) or ,57.6 miles, and that no river comurunicates between the two oceans. They showed the difficulty of terminating the canal at a good anchorage on the VPacifie. Up to this point they were correct, but all after was error. ‘They entertained the opinion that a caval joining the Chimalapa to the Guasacoalco could be con- structed without locks or inclined planes. By the last surveys, which were made towards the | close of the 18th century, under the viceroy Revilla- gigedo, an intelligent man, full of ardor for the public goes. who exerted himself, not for a maritime canal, but for a practicable line for boats or large canses, a canal ae the Chimalapa and river del Malpapo, a braneh of the Guasacoalso, would have been about 25 kilometres long. When the wars of the French revolution wore terminated, in ISI4, the Spanish Cortes, on the sug- gestion of a Mexican deputy, Don Lucas Alaman, since Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, ordered this canal, but the Mexican revolution soon breaking out, the order was never carried into effect. Shortly after the achievement of Mexican inde- ndence, that government detached Don Juan Or- egoso, a general of talent, to make explorations. That learned officer commenced the work in 1825. He took some astronomical observations for the de | termination of latitudes and longitudes. He mea- | sured the elevation above thi not by levelling, but by the barometer, an ci ment capable of | giving remarkably close approximations, even in | equinoxial regions; but unfortunately the barome- ter used by him was not of the proper construction. | The isthinus, measured from theshore of Tehu- — to the bar of the Guasacoalco, has a width | of 22) kilometres, about 136%; miles. The lagoons | communicating with the ocean, and which lie in the west of Tehuantepec, one behind the other, reduce the land distance by about at least 21 kilometres. The Guasacoaleo has thirteen feet on the bar, at low water. Even a Spanish ship of the line, the | Asia, driven by a storm, not long since entered the | river. The bar is immovable and short, and once passed, there is depth enough to float ships for a dozen leagues. It can easily, for large river boats, be rendered navigable at ali times, up to the con- fluence of the Saravia, which is half way between | the two oceans. It is thought that a lateral canal | ought to be dug, commencing at Piedra Blanca (or | Pena Blanca,) and ascending to the Saravia, which is fifty-five kilometres long, in a straight line. The soil is principally loose and argillaceous—eacy of excavation. tween these two points, the | course of the river is very sinuous, and a canal will shorten the distance one half. Strictly aking, | however, a permanent river navigation wi be pos sible almost throughout, not only to the Saravia, butto the Malpapapo. Above that, an entirely arti- ficial canal is indispensable. ‘The summit level, which is much nearer the | Pacific than the Atlar is very low in the isth- mus. South of the Chivela, we find a pass that is but 20) metres above the sea. The puss of Saint | Michael de Chimalapa is 393 metres. Such eleva- | tions can be overcome by acanal. The height of the mountains does not, then, present an insurmount- able obstacle to Ld org of a canal between the | two oceans, provided a sufficient quantity of water can be obtained at the summit. But the report of General Orbegoso overthrows all hope of a regular and good river navigation inthe Chimalapa, or other | water courses falling into the Pacific. | The Chimalapa is only practicable for canoes during the rainyseason. At San Miguel de Chima- lapa, which is forty or forty-five kilometres from the lagoons adjacent the ocean, and even thirteen kilo- metres lower, the channel is dry for one-third of the ear. The soil bey perm , and the «mall val- ieys very open, it will not be easy to extablish great reservoirs for collec rain in the absence of river water. Even on the slope of the Pacific, the canal must be fed from the waters of the Guasacoaleo, brought by a feeder across the summit level. It is net demonstrated that the nature of the ground absolutely forbids the construction of such afeeder. After leaving their sources, the Guasa- coaleo and Chimalapa run in parallel lines to the east and west, about twenty-eight kilometres apart. The first, at Santa Maria de Chima- lapa, detours toward the north; the second, at six kilometres below San Miguel, detou-s wards the south, in order to reach tl spective oceans. A feeder brought obliquely from the Guasacoaleo to the Chimalapa, between the parallel parts of their courses, will attain the object, without requiring more than thirty or forty kilometres, wh is not objectionabl feeder. At Santa Maria, the Guasacoa’ nearly the same level as the Chimalapa at San Miguel. We should then have to tap the Guasa- coaleo a little above Santa M in order that it might flow naturally to San Miguel, on the Chi- malapa; but the ground will have to be practicable for tunnels of medium length. The route by which General Orbegoso looked for a passage, is not favorable, for it would require a tunnel nearly the whole distance. He went in nearly a etraight line from Santa Maria to San Miguel. General Orbegoso concludes in these terms—that canalling the isthmus remains problematical and gigantic. He obeerves that a communication b; good route is easy between the lagoons of ‘Teh tepec and the (iuasacoalco. Even thea, however, the want of a good port on the Pacifis remains to be supplied. Tehuantepec ete! deserves the namo of road- stead. It is approached by two successive Ingoons about five metres deep=the first is very long in the direction of the sea coast,—the other, close behind | the first, is likewise parallel to the sea, and much | shorter, but still about 17 kilometres. Sine the | close of the Ith century, Tehuantepec has been | but little pega. rhe ocean is constantly re- | tiring from its shore. The anchorage beoomes every year worse. ‘The sand continually depositing from the Chimalapa, upon the bar, where the first | lagoon empties into the second, increases its longth | and diminishes the depth of water; and already | Tehuantepec is acoasible only to schooners. The project of joining the two oceans by the | — of Tehuantepec, has not yet been aban- loned. It is now two years sinee the Mextenn government | entrusted the undertaking to Don Jose Garay; but | he is not attempting a maritime canal, which would | be like making an arm of the sea. The plan is in- | finitely more modest. It isto improve the chanuvels | of the Guasaeoaleo and Chimalapa for stoamboate, and to egpnect them by @ railroad. S | days which tried men’s souls. | riea, in t | of my property in Mexico, and the b | In addi | that t the as ited, beep of forei ove Qt ig in ins city, as paene of ublic, for the purpose of rendering them a ‘ato be elected td the lative body of this province, with the ulterior view of obtaining seats in the Congress of the republic of New Gra » 83 @ measure of y to reform the laws of the land to more suitable ones to the age we live in. Among the names you mention is mine, and, in ooeneens your Legge upon the subject, you say: * say you, gentlemen, to our Zestion? sit not worehy of consideration” In answer to this call, I beg leave to say that the subject referred to is worthy of the most serious consideration, and that 1, after taking the same un- der advisement, and due deliberation in my mind, have come to the fullowing conclusion:— 1am convinesd of one thing to be a positive fact, and that is, that a foreigner is and ever will be a foreigner everywhere, although he be reared up and educated from his tender rye in the land of his adoption, aud although he hath expended his for- tune, devoted his most useful days, and even suffer- ed the loss of his limbs, in tho detence of his adopted country’s rights, yet the appellation a ** foreigner,” (estrangero) as Corot nag oe styled at times, especially when aspiring to oficial distinction or matrimonial preferment, will nover be lost sight of by the eye of envy, as a stigma to divest the indi- vidual of his good qualities, eclipse the brillianey of his meritorious services, or to awaken suspicion and distrust in the breasts of the native citizens, rela- tive to his fidelity to his adopted country, or the sternness of his integrity. I speak advisedly and fuclingly upon this subject, so fur ax concerns my humble self, having on a pre= vious occasion, prompted by similar noble motives, as you indicate in editorial, exchanged my citi- zenship of the United States of America for that of the Republic of Mexico, where, as such citizen, L held offices civil and military, rendering such ser- vices to my then adopted country as were required of me, in sustaining the rights and interests of the same, and in attempting to regenerate the politi- cal, so and religious condition of the people, in And what was the recompense t Imprisonment, confiscation of my property, and banishment from the country, by the arbitrary act of the executive of the nation, and, finally, a decree of the sovereign Congress, sentence of death, if apprehended. On the contrary, Imight have exclaimed with Paul of Tarsus, ye it lawful for you to scourge a man, that isa Roman, d uncondemned?” *{ appeal to General Jacke son, because Lam an American citizen!” ‘This sad experience will ever be a warning to me of tho danger of bartering away my birthright for a “mesg of pottage.”” Tam hee a citizen of the United States of Ame- ie epjoyment of all the rights, privileges and prerogatives of such, and | hope to remain thus so long as | may live. Citizens of the United States cannot anddo not sufliciently appreciate their rights as such, until after they have placed themselves beyond the pale of the star spangled Bauner. Had | been a citizen of the United States at the time of my imprisonment and the confiscation hment therefrom, contrary to the constitution and the laws of that Jand, by arbitrary power, | should havo had a right to appear before the commissioners appointed in conformity to the act of Congress to adjudicate the claims of American citizens, for in- demnity against Mexico, as have Messrs. Leggitt, Santangello, one of my confreers, andkmany others have done; but my right was ‘bartered away,” and I stood forsaken, unprotected, and without re- dress or relief. As youhave called upon the gentlemen whom you have suggested to become naturalized, to say Something of the subject, 1, as one, deom it my duty to define my own position, which you will please no- tice as an answer. Iam respecifully yours, Panama, March, 1551. ORGE F iSHER. Coal Beds in New Granada. (From the Panama Star, March 21.] Statements have been published from time to time, of the existence of large coal beds on the Isthmus of Panama. The fact is one of the greatest interest and importance, from its connection with tke projected railroad across the Isthmus, as well as with the lines of steamers established on the Pa~ cific coast. We have seen some extracts from a report upon the subject, made by Wm. W. Ridley, Eeq., a civil engineer of New York, who was per- fectly familiar with that entire region of the eoun- try, having been employed by the projectors of the Panes Kvailroad, in making a survey and explora- tion of it. It will be seen that Mr. Ridley found bituminous coal of most excellent quality, and in the greatest abundance, upon a peninsula of the Bay of Chiriqui, which lies some distance above the proposed termi- naticn, on the Atlantic side, of the projected rail- road. The vicinity, moreover, seems to abound in the richest productions of nature, vegetable, ani- mal, and mineral, and acoording to Mr. Ridley, it ary a rich, and as yet an entirely unattempted jeld for adventurous enterprise. A striking fact set forth in this report, is the ex- istence of a practicable route across the isthmus, at tome distance above the onc which the Aspin- wall road will take, and which seems to possess many remarkable ad ‘antages. Its extent is stated at eighteen leagues; it has a large and excellent port at cach extremity, and a wagon road may be age throughout its whole extent, according to Mir. R., for the comparatively small sum of $50,000. Such a road has already been commenced, under a rapt from the government of New Granada, but be spitg upon it has been susvended for the want o % The Conspiracy against Ha: (From the on Traveller, April yy. later advices from Hayti, received in this city, we have a more connected account of the late plot to overthrow the existing imperial government of Hayti, and to re-establish the republic. In the first place, the conspirators were blacks, and not mulat- toes. It arsthat several extensive robberies had occ! at Port au Prince and Cape Haytien, and the government was convinced that these rob- beries had something to do with a political move- ment. Among others, the government treasury was robbed of alargeamcunt. Of course the police there were wide awake to catch the perpetrators of these extensive and successful robberies. It pears, according to the accounts, that on a certain night, one of the soldiers was robbed of his shirt. He stopped a man whom he suspected of the rob- bery, and instead of finding the stolen article, found a large sewn of money. The prisoner offered hia captor a considerable amount to let him go, but the oficer of the guard hearing the noise, came out. ‘The prisoner had then two men to bribe—and while he was about it, the police, who were not far off, came up. Some rensona led thi the officer of the guard had a part of the money which the prisoner had had in his possession, and he also was arrested. In searching his residence, documents were discovered which Eom ‘ht to light the whole couspiracy. It extended all over the island, and many leading blacks were implicated. lition to the arrest of a large number at Port au Prince, including one or two of the ministry, about one hundred were arrested at Cape Haytien, including several in office; also the Commissary of Police at Gonaives, At or near the capital, the er of Public Ju and several of his fellow conspirators have been shot; aleo several of those arrested at Cape Haytien. ' It is supposed that many more would suffer the penalty of Meath, Relative to the demand made by Com. Parker, of the Saranac, for damages for the illegal imprison- ment of Capt. Mayo of the Leander, we learn that the ape government informed him in substance, ey were willing to pay Capt. Mayo some compensation, but refused t> give the sum de- manded for the detention of the vessel. This answer Com. Parker will report to the authorities at Washington. We hear that the ag ae government refuses to pay the claims—to a farge amount and of lo standing—in favor of American merchants, to whiel Mr. Green, aud more latterly Mr. Walsh, has been. “——-e to call their attention. Ir. Walsh, the American commissioner, has left the capital in the eteamer Water Witeb, for other parts of the island. What was the result of his negotiations, in conjunction with the Freneh and Lnglish consuls, to induce Soulouque to settle the quarrel betweon the Haytiens and Dominicans, is not certainly known, but the story is that the pro- ject has entirely failed. It was the general opinion that Soulouque was never more powerful on the island. than at the present moment. He exhibits great sagacity in ali his movements. Tragepy 1s Sovrm Caroitna.—It becomes our pen to record a tragedy that was enacted in our village yesterday. ‘The parties engaged. in it wer hlisha ye Harris, Dr. Platt Croom, and Pleasant May. Mr. Hi. wos killed. Dr. C. was shot, wo learn, in both arms and one shoulder; his wounds, are not cousidered dangerous. Mr. M. badly, though not dangerowly wounded. Some six or cight pistol shots were fired, and the: ee of the parties w killed. The firing was comme eet near the Posts office door, and was continued across the etreet to the old Mansion Louse, where Mr. Iarria received: & Bowie knife wound, inflicted, we understand, by Dr. Croem, whieh caused his death almost instan~ taneously. We understand it had its origin in @ disagreement between Mr. Harris and Dr. Croom,. in regaid to a fenee bounds would remark, are among the most resp our citizens. bir. Harris has lived in thee neighbor- bood fume two years, and in our village siuee the ye. Croom and Mr. May wero ago. Mr. Harrie was originally We, Cia., but moved to this eouuty from ise, Hy was @ most worthy man, highly « steemed by thore who enjoyed the pleasure of an asquaintanes with him, He married, some three years ago, Miss Irene Taylor, of this place, ard seon after moved to this gountry.— Greenstor wu gh Beacon, April 12.