The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1852, Page 2

NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL. REPORT OF THE ENGINEER'S SURVEY. Reste and Dimensions of the Proposed Work of Brithh Engine¢rs—Climate, &o., of Mearagua—Refasal of British Capi- talists to Embark in the Enterprise, dc. ‘We have before us the various documents pub- Bshed by the company which has obtained a char- 1, Map and profile of @ ship canal, &e., by 0. W. Childs, Engineer. ‘San Juan river, the portion of Lake 10 be traversed, and the section of = ‘between the lake and Pacific ocean H a g and estimates of the cost of Report survey, qunstrenting the jnter oocanie ship canal, from the har Der ef San Juan del Norte. on the Atlantic, to the harbor ef Brito, om the Pacific, &o. By Orville W. Childs, Chief Baginecr ; ‘J. D. Fay, Principal Assistant. |. Engineers’ report of cost of constructing the ship eanal ‘as estimated at New York prices. “4 port of british Engineers on the ship camal be- the Atlanticand Pacific oceans. This is the report ef certain English Engineers, to whom was referred the Feport, plans, estimates, Sc., of Mr. Childs. ORIGIN OF PRESENT CANAL GRANT. ‘The charter of this company is dated September 22, 1849, and was obtained by Cornelius Vanderbilt and his associates, for a term of eighty-five years from the completion of the proposed canal. The surveys were te be commenced within one year, and the whole to be completed in twelve years. The eanal, by the terms of the charter, is to be ef dimensions sufficiently great to admit and pass vessels of all sizes, with speed and safety. The company is to pay to the State, @uring the period assigned for the construction of the work, the annaal sum of $10,000; to give the State | $200,000 of stock in the canal, om the issue of stock ; the State to receive, for the first twenty years, twenty per cent annually out of the net profits of the canal, after deducting the interest on ‘the capital actually invested, at the rate of seven percent; and for the remaining sixty-five years ‘wenty-five per cent of the profits. The company, mn the other hand, are to receive fifteen per @ent annually out of the net profits of the eanal, for the first ten years after it shall revert | examination, and to have devoted him: route for the construction of | This is a | measurably good upon the Pscific, that of San Toa deltas the best on the whole line of coast from the Bay of Salinas northward to Realejo. line is sixteen miles and bg i loonie, greatest elevation above ie r of Galisteo is seventeen miles 200 feet in length and the gre: elevation above the sea 272, ai above the | 34 feet. Bailey’s line, for half of its distance, involved 209 feet rage vertical cutting ; that of Galisteo, for half of its length, an average vertical cutting of 108 feet. These facts, and others, among which the absolute impossibility of supplying the summit levels with water, and the necessity of tunnels, combined to make the con- struction of a canal on this line wholly impossible Mr. Childs seems te have been satisfied of the impracticability of this line, after a vey 2 BE id ciectress of some other one more feasible. In doin; ‘is, however, it was found necessary to abandon San Juan del Sur as the western terminus Starting at the point on the lake to the eastward of Rivas, levelling westward, through a transverse, moderately undulating plain, he ascended on a dis- tance of six and a half miles, 326 feet, to the summit of a broad valley, passing between the hills, (which are here of moderate height, and conne: with another valley on the west » Which ext toa place on the Pacific called Brito, where a stream, named Rio Grande, flows into the sea. The quantity of water available for this summit being entirely inedequate, and the cut altogether teo formidable, on the plan of carrying the lake level through to the western slope, this route was abandoned. Another line, not far from this, was attempted, with very nearly the same result. Mr. Childs next started from the mouth of the Rio Lajas, the same point with his predecessors, and tRe line of level was carried to the summit of a transversal valley lying about six and a half miles south of Rivas, and reac! between the valley of Rio Lajas and that of the Rio Grande, already men- tioned as flowing into the Pacifico at Brite. This summit was found to be only forty-seven and a half feet above the surface of the lake, as it stood on the 28d day of Deeember, 1850, at which time it was three and a half feet above its lowest » and one and a half feet below the level at which it ordi- 7 stands at the height of the rainy season. The length of this line from lake to sea is about twenty miles. This is the route, and the only di- rect one, between the lake and sea, regarded by Mr. Childs as feasible, and upon this all his calculations, respecting the proposed canal, are based. In his own language, ‘‘the conclusion was arrived at, that the line leading from the lake, at the mouth of the riv- er Lajas" to the Pacific at Brito, presented more fa- vorable conditions for the eonstruction of the.canal than any other; it was, therefore, determined to sur- wey and carefully to locate a line across upon this Toute. This line, then, runs through the valley of the ri- to the State, provided it does not cost over | ver Lajas, the waters of Charen branch of which $20,000,000 ; but if it costs more than that sum, the company shall receive twenty per cent for ‘twenty years. During the period of constructing ‘the canal, (twelve years,) the company has the ex- @lusive right of navigating the waters of the State by steam; and also the privilege of opening a teansit route through its territories, upon the prin- | ips) condition of paying ten per cempof the net | profits to the State. There are some other provi- | sions, as to lands, tolls, &c., of no special import- ance in this connection. Under this charter the company perfeeted its @rganization, with Mr. Vanderbilt as president. ‘their holders brought into the organization. Tho first annual installment was paid, and in August, ea hag: in time to meet the stipulation previding thst the surveys should be commenced within one | esr from the date of the contract, a party of sur- | | westerly some two miles, along the base of t! It divided its original shares into a considerable nam- | ber, called “‘ canal rights,” which were sold, and | interlock with those of the Rio Grande, and, through the valley of the latter, reaches the sea. Tho stream first named has its origin about ten miles south west- erly from its entrance into the lake, on the castern slope of the dividing ridge, and after runnin, pay, e hills, takes a northerly direction through comparatively Jeyel savannahg, a distance of some six or eight miles when it bends to the cast, and in a mile and three- fourths enters the lake. The Rio Grande rises on the eastern slope of the same range o( hills, and some two or three miles northwest from the sources of the Lajas, and, after flowing some threo or four miles near the base of the slope, bends to the west, and by a narrew and somewhat irregular valley passes through the ridge, and thence ina more ca- pacious and uniform valley into the Pacific. WEETERN SECTION OF PROPOSED CANAL BETWEEN LAKE NICARAGUA AND THE PACIFIC. The entire line of the canal proposed by Mr. Childs, and upon which all hiscalsulations and estimates are of increase, at high lake the river would be doubled. The river receives large accessions from its tribu- taries. Below these, and above the point of diver- = of the Colorado, flowing direct into the sea the San Juan, flowing into the babor of the fanre name, 3 flow of Printed was rayne <4 second, of which passed tl Golorade branch into the ocean, and 12,324 through the San Juan. DIMENSIONS OF THE PROPOSED CANAL. Where the excavation is in earth, Mr. Childs proposes, and all his estimates are founded on th@te dimensions, that the canal shall havea depth ofseven- teen feet; that it shall be fifty feet wide at the bot- tom, Pe oie foet wide at nine feet above the bot- tom, and 118 feet wide at the surface of the water. When the excavation is in rock, the canal is also to be fifty feet wide at bottom, seventy-seven feet at nine feet above bottom, and 78} feet at the sur- face of the water. LENGTH OF PROPOSED CANAL. The total length of the line proposed by Mr. Childs, from San Juan del Norte, on the Atlantic, to Brito on the Pacific, is 1943 miles, as follows Miles, Oapal, from port of San Juan to its point of inter- tersection with the river, near the mouth of the Berapiqui.......sssscssecesecccesevesecvecoees 28. Slack water navigation on the San Juan river, from the above point to San Carlos, at the outlet of lake 90 800 mouth of the Rio Lajas. From mouth of Rio Lajas to Brit: ESTIMATED C087. The cost of the work is estimated by Mr. Childs in detail. The recapitulation, by divimons, is as follows:— Middle Division (through to lake). ‘Western Division (from lake to Pacific) Add for contingencies, 15 per certt........... 4,113 Total estimated cost of canal. +0 $81,538,319 The canal company have published a pamphlet, in which the estimates for the canal are made at New York prices, and in which the total is put dewn at $13,243,099. “The prices adopted in the estimate of $31,500,000,” eays Mr. Childs, “‘are made up with reference to the Ge ee of the work within six years from the time o: Erogking ground, and a commencement of the settlement of the country, in fey ony of the line, previous to letting the con- racts. CAPACITY OF THE PROPOSED CANAL. The charter of the canal company provides that the capacity of the work shall be sufficiently great “to admit vessels of all sizes.” And it is obvious that a work which will not pass freely the largest Yessels can but imperfectly answer the purposes of its construction, or meet the requirements of com- merce. But Mr. Childs proposes one only seven- teen feet deep, fifty feet wide at bottom, and 113 feet wide at top—a capacity vga inadequate to pace the larger classes of vessel, and one which fails to meet the stipulations of the charter, The larger merchant ships, such as are generally employed in the haulin; But there is et © cnsldiration of: “more importance, viz: bor. Mr. Childs apprehends that it would be ne- corsary to rely chiefly on ers. He says that although of the country, when under com; circumstances, are eapable of Gn! activity, and of endur- ing mueh » in their ordinary avoca- tions they are tardy, irregular in their labor. An exception is, however, made in favor of a class of boatmen employed on the river, some 400 in xumber, in whom we have an example of physi- eal labor and exposure to the elements scarcely equalled in any country, endured them with no heey ee, it apparently with advan- ge. to their health. These men sleep on a narrow lank across their boats, with no other Teensioe a single blanket ; yet there is probably in the world no ef men of more athletic forms, and notwi their indifferent attention to the conditions of health, more capable of hard service. 8o far ascan be gathered from Mr. Childs’ obser- vations, it seems that he would rely chiefly on Salen labor for the construction ef the proposed work. He seemsto think itis not unlikely that foreigners, already accustomed to labor, may, when prec eey cas ae and under no annecessary pa pa capable of amount of labor in country, although not as great an amount as in higher latitudes. He states that of the en- gaged in the survey west of the lake ‘were unaccustomed to the climate. After a few months, aslight fever, followed by prevented some of the number from continued di exercise; but being in all cases under the control of medicine, it was of short duration. During seven months, in this a of the State, illness in the ey atno time terrupted a daily prosecution of survey. U; the San Juan river, the surveying part; consiited of twelve persons, exclusive of native cians, The survey occupied six and a half months, from March to September. “ The party-generally enjoyed Vigil health, and no individual was pasate it y indispo- sition, beyond a day or two, from full service. Of those engaged as axemen in clearing the line, two were northern men, whose daily exercise exceeded that usual to men in canal work, without detriment to health or constitution.” Soil.—From San Juan harbor to where the pre d canal would strike the river, the soil is vege- ble mould, coarse sand, and sandy loam. Along the river it {s of @ more mixed character, clay loam predominating in the valleys, aud a gravelly clay, with detached stones, on the hills. Westof the lake, the central portion of the summit is prin- cipally clay ; the remainder, together with the seil through the valley to Brito, has a very nearly uni- form and_ equal ‘intermixture of clay, sand, and gravel. The surface soil is generally fine, and con- tainseaough of vegetable mould te render it capa+ ble of great production. Food.— Among the staple articles of food that would, during the construction of the canal, be most required for consumption, may be named maize, plantains, and beans. Of the former and latter two crops are annually raised on the same ground, and the supply of plantains is constant. wides these are bananas, oranges, lemons, pineapples, cocoa nuts, squashes, melons, tomatoes, and other garden vegetables. Mr. Childs, while considering these sources of supply in food, is nevertheless of opinion that salt meat and flour would have to be brought, in large quantities, from abroad. Fresh beef, pork, and poultry, are abundant in the country. CLIMATE, SALUBRITY, ETC. Amongst the most interesting dosuments pub- lished in connection with the report of Mr. Childs, is a letter from W. J. Lovejoy, M.D., on the cli- mate, &c., of Nicaragua. His observations seem to have been made chiefly in tho district near fi ‘ai opinion: James Walker, Civil E: 5 ward " of the Royal Engineers, were for this a named servine. They seem not only to have examined Mr. Childs’ survey, but subjected that gentleman, who was then in England, to a very close personal examination. Taking the plans, measurements, and statements of Mr. Childs to be correct, their opinion iz, on the whole, favorable. They think that his estimates for work are ample, but regard the amount set down for “ contingencies,” (fifteen per cent.) too small by at least ten per cent, that is to say, that it should ‘be twenty-five instead of fifteen per eent. Of all the works of the proposed navigation, they regard the Brito, or Pacific harbor, as least satisfac- tory. To use their own lan; “Presuming Mr. Childs’ statements and conel to be correct, the Brito harbor is, in shape and size, unworthy of this great shi) navigation, even Supposing the Paci- fic, to which it is quite open, to bea much quieter cern Se an ywe have seen or have any informa- tion of.’ They also object to the proposed size, and a canal twenty feet deep instead of seventeen, sixty feet wide at bottom instead of fifty, and the locks ee span of 250, as bein a thea ae aes efficient for the genera! of trade, by steam or sailin, vearels.” "This would, of course, be at- tended with t'additional cost; but, as traly observe, ‘if the junction of the Pacific with the Atlantic be doizg at all, itis worth doing well.” They conclude that, judging from the data, without presuming to vouch for Chole accuracy, the work is jicable, ‘‘and would not be attended with engineering difficulties beyond what might yee ly be expeatall in a work of this pry ees 3” @ surveys have every appearance of accurac’ and they are satisfied of the perfect ot candor of Mr. ©hilds; that the works are sufficient for the ns ae “that gr jue of money, are wa ® general way, so far as judgments can be formed from tho Pied mentsproduced and the explanations of Mr. Childs.” OPINION OF BRITISH @APITALISTS. Wo come now to a point not indicated in the pamphlets before us, but upon which we are, never- theless, able to speak from authority, viz: the refu- sal of the leading capitalists of England to engage in the projected work. It is well known that at least two expeditions or missions to England have been undertaken by egents of the Canal company, one in 1851, and the second in 1852. At their frst visit, the agents were unable to present any specific data upon which to solicit the aid of capitalists; they, however, made out a hy- ao tical case, which they submitted, and received r answer: “‘Substantiate your statements by facts, and no difficulty will be experienced in securing the financial aid w! you desire—until then, we can return you ne definite answer.” This reply was not made public in terms, but the agents, on their re- turn, proclaimed that the ‘ great European capi- talists had engaged to furnish half the capital for the enterprise!” A few, ani it is believed only a few persons, considering the precise source whence bed Fee came, attached the «lightest importance 0 it. The second expedition was made some months ago; and this time the agents took out with them both Colonel Childs and his surveys. The opinion ef certain British engineers, (as we have seen,) was procured, and the whole matter re submitted to the | great capitalists, who now, for the first time, thought it sufficiently advanced to merit their serious atten- tion. The reeult of their examination was commu- nicated to the parce in a letter from Mr. Bates, head of the house o 1. The dimensions of the canal were not such as, in thelr opinion, to meet the requirements of comme and the work could not be used except by medium-; Baring Brothers, in August | last, and consisted of a declension to embark in the | aaa ie for a variety of reasens, chiefly, of course, | ani ‘The Amazon and the A: About one balfof Bolivia, two third jout one vi three-fourths of Ecuador, and one-half of New Geet nada, are drained by the Amazon and its tribu ' taries. For the want of steamboat mavigation om these water courses, the trade of all these parte of those countries goos west by caravans of mules ta the Pacific. There it is shipped, and after dou! Cape Horn, and sailing eight or ten thousand itis then only off the mouth of the Amazon way to the United States or Europe; whereas, if the Bavigation of the Amazen were free to these coun- tries, the steamers on that river would land their _ Produce at the mouth of the Amazon for what it, emane Convey it aeross the Andes on mules to the A question. therefore. of the it importance to these republics is the free navigation of that river. The introduction of the steamboat upon their tri- butaries of it would be followed by the im: grant up the Amazon, who would toon "aaks i: fect gern spot of the splendid provinces that pa ita The distance between the sources of the Ameo: in Peru, and her Pacific coast, is, at the pros 4 point, not more than sixty or seventy miles The province of Caxamarca, which is upsn she Amazonian water shed in Peru, has a population of 70,000. It is said to be the healthiest of the world. It 1792 there were eight persons in it whose woeene ages were 114, 117, 121, 131, 132, 141, and 147: and one person Caos pre Martin) died there at the age of 144 years, hate and 5 days, eae on living descendants. The eity of Caxa= marca is in 7 deg. south. ere are upon is water shed, in Boli: the eities of Chuquisacs, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruzs in ; the fameus city of Cuzco, Huancavelicay (celebrated for the richest quicksilver mines in the world,) Tarma, Caxamarca, and Moyabamba; an€ in Ecuador, the celebrated city of Quito, besides seaeront other towns, villages hamlets im em all, : The revolution which the discovery of the pat sage sround the Cape of Good Hope made in the trade of the East was not greater than that whick the free navigation of the Amazon would make im the trade of these four republics. It would make of them new countries and a new people. Total Lo at present estimated botween seven and eight millions. in May, 1851, Lieutenant Herndon set out front Lima, on his way to Geta the Amazon; and it is through him that I derive most of my information concerning the Peruvian water-shed of that river. I therefore introduce the reader upon that waters shed, by an extract from his journal, which he hag kindly permitted me to make Standing in view of three beautiful lakes—one of them, Morococha, or “Painted Lake,” being that from which the head) waters of the Amazon flow—he remarks:— Though not yet sixty miles from the ses, we had’ qzonsed the great “ divide” which separates the waters of the Pacific from the wavers of the Atlantic. The last steps of our mules had made a strixing change in our geegrapbieal relations—so suddenly and s0 quickly ha@ We been eut off frm oil ocmners Pie anaes and ‘upon waters that ripp! 5] joyously aa ey asbeod by our fee} om tl y to "ie the Disa waves of the dark blue cecan that washes the shores of our own dear land They whispered to me of home, an@ be heart went slong with them I thought of Maury, ith his researches comvcerning the eurrents of the sea and reeollseting the close physical connection pointed out by him as existing between these, the waters of tha: Amazon and th f our owm majestic Mississt Ez musingly plucked a bit of greem moss from the Bpom the bosom of the placid lake of Morocochs, and ad it floated alosg I followed it, im imagination, dowm through the luxurious climes, beautiful skies, and enchanting scenery of the trepics, to the mouth of the river that this littie lake was feeding; thence acrosd @ Caribbeam sea, through the Yucatan pass into the Galfot Mexico; thence slong the Gulfstream, and so euti upom the ocean off the shores of our own “ land flowers.” Here I fancied it might meet with silent little messengers cast by the hands of sympathizing friends F based, is, therefore, through the valley of the river countrymen high upon the head waters of the siaatp ors was sent out to Nicaragua. They wi eas: » 8) y foreign trade, have a draught of from twenty to | Rivas, on the line of the survey, which is notori- | steamers and small vessels, my the direction of Mr. O. W. Childs, An oae | San Juan into Lake Nicaragua, across Lake Nicara- | twenty-five fect, and would require, to say nothing ously, and for obvious reasons, The loast salubrious | _ 2: That the proposed dimensions were not in confor- ete, the Tar west, upen the distant fountains of is time, we believe, State Engineer of New York, as ahief engineer. He arrived in Nicaragua on the | 27th of August, 1850, and so far as the report is concerned, we are left to infer that he at once com- mity with those required by the charter of the company, and that it could not be built of the proposed dimensions, without securing ® modification of the charter, which, in | the tthe Sig of feeling in Nicaragua, it was not likely | could be effected. of war vessels: and large steamers, a canal of from twenty-five to thirty feet in depth—which would more than double the amount of excavation now propoted, and probaly, treble the amount of cost, and carry it up from $31, gua to the mouth of the Rio Lejas, through the valley of that stream and across the summit of for- ty seven and a half feet which separates it from that of the Rio Grande, and down the valley ef the Rio pet of the Btate, excepting Pee the valley of eSanJuan. He observes, that the limited num- ber of foreigners resident in the country renders it difficult to say, from actual observation, what is, or It was indeed but s bit of moss that was ffoating upom the water whiie I mused, But fancy, awakened and sil<« mulated by surrounding circumstanees, had already con- ‘verted it into a skiff manned by ‘airies. and bound upom had : of ri r * ry Th |. | ® wission of bigh import, beating messages of pease and rats che ee oped ey it Nieoragut bu Reape | Seaide to Brito, whero that atream enters the Pa- | Here is a fatal deficiency im eh ple Soars, "Neverthe, erations ation ie maied eont of #31,088,000, The netticas oo nan tastes | aay and! telling of commerce and navjestions st ’ . 4 “ sions, ani reciat i | e| ‘ > an mecting anal” survey was fnished is not known. The | trust’ now inetd oe ee be givoh me drawing twenty fect of water, Mr. Childs tays, on | heat and moisture, modified by pravailing winds, | Nieceuua ust noch ore aoe hove vpaid ta throngh a tcompet Iguder toan the tempest sprites sos date of the ey before us, however, is Syracuse, 1852. great de- | Mareh 9, ge sontemplates a canal but seventeen feet deep; ‘more the | down by the naiads of Lake [tasea with greetings to Mo= rocoeha. gree the amount of excavation, and sti 2,260,200, Estimating the expenses of repairs, superin~ &o., he ventures some deductions from the meteor- ology of the country. He presents a most inter- be THY LINE OF SURVEY. ibe lahat tae haat "it will | CXPense. “ Any considerable increase to the depth | esting thermometrical table for one year, from aida ricemunanal ‘oo tnall) then the, patents T wes wow, Moethe Set tahe, teiciy Se Wb all of Se In all the various projects for uniting the two | be necessary to commence tho censtruction in the | Proposed, (seventeen feet,) would require under | September, 1850, to September, 1851. During that | make the work pay must be $2,670 000. operations. I had been sent to explore the valley of the Amazon, t@ sound ite str nd to report as to their mavigability. I was commanded to examine its fields, its forests, and its rivers. that I might gauge their capabilities, active and dormant, for trade and commerce with States of water excavations between the lake and the Toro | period the lowest mark of the thermometer was 4. Putting the toll at $8 per ton, (which is regarded as | tapéds, a distance of twonty-seven miles, to be al- | 68 degrees, and tho highest 91 degrees of Farenheit. | being too much.) yet even then it would require the an- most eontinuous ; it would ny much lengthen the | The results of the table are given herewith:— mal passage of ae 906.000 tone of slitpping through | cuts on the other portions of the river, aud the lin- ith ag ae a the eanal, while allowing the whole of the European aud ther ther, lake, at @ point where the water is seventeen feet deep at mean stage. This point is opposite the mouth of the Lajas, and twenty-five chains from the line of the ehore From this point, for a mile and seas, through the great tra: verse valley which con- | stitutes the isthmus of agua, the line of the fiver San Juan has always boen contemplated as American trade with the Paoific coasts of both conti- that by which the great lake of Nicaragus was to | & half, partially along the river Lajas, the excava- | PHILY of these artificial channels to receive deposits Her. “ther, Range. | vents, and the Paciio itands to pass both ways through | Christencom and meke Known to the spirit and entar- be reached. From that lake to the Pacilic, various bot will be Lg val gd earth. But beyond this, for | tion would be very much greater. On the lead September, 1850. 38 1 a te ae site ianaty eaniey Y and ‘calculation that | there, weiting for the touch of civilization and the breatlz routes have been suggested :— Be atance of five and ahalf miles, which carries | portion of the canal,” continues Mr. Childe, ‘a | October, do, 8 7010 ttle, Hany, of the European trade-with the Orient | of the steamengine to gire them amimation, life, and pale 1. From lake Nicaragua via the river Sapoa, tothe bay | the line beyond the summit, three-fourths of the ex- depth of twenty- fe f 4 November, do. 86 4 12 a i | pable existence. agua Apo v.|: cavation’ Will he tira Gepreks wkerae ths | depth of twenty-two feet of water would, with fifty | Novemb i Frould pase through the canal, inasmuch as the passage | P®Dp tore ur ley this immense field. drevsed in the robes of Belanos. in the gulf of Salinas, on the Pacific, $ ; P ety sto fay: the | fect bottom width, give a transverse water section | December, do, 4 72 '12_| dy the way of Cape Good Hope is onan average 1,500 | -Before us ley this immense feld. yf th 2. Vie the Rio Lajas, to the port of San Juam del Sar, | deepest excavation, or open cut, will be sixty-five | qhout forty-fve percent greater tham a desth of | WepUary, | 1861. 8 60S 18—_| ‘sites nearer than by way of the proposed canal, | of-ayeciasiing summer, and embracing an aree Of thor r some poiut not far from it, on the Pacific. feet, and involve the removal of 1 879,000 cubic | seventeen feet, With the same bottom width. avd | bk do. . 84 70 14 6. That even if the distance were in favor of the pro- | pee vy Leticia nad ge Heelan el 3. Vis the Rio Tipitepe. tmto the superior lake of Ma- | yards of earth, and 3,878,000 cubic yards of | the expense of the inland portions would also, by reine & es i FY Posed canal its sasall, sine would prevent neatly, If mot | Bile towered In forbidding grandeur the erest aud magus, and from this Jake to the Pecifi, ax the litvie port | rock. The excavation and construction in this | teuecnfor the greater depth of excavation, be is. | May’ 8. 68S | AN Seirrome paseo 1G; and Thebes auth ernait® | peaked sommits of the Andes, clad in the garb of eternal ee Pannara. of Btalsia, ot iato the magnise:nt five jand a half miles alone are estimated at | greased in a ti higher ratio.” - June, do. . 88 m1 17 Ho apdinot mow oh ie reveals coapored ii eetaan wee | Winter. 3-7 agli oe : , | upwards of $6 000,000. | Ste Childs ible of the inad fa| July, do. COMRERAT GOO 1 fale Be Sey hed md tees | "The contract was striking and the field inviting. But 7 i d seems sensible o! ¢ inadequacy of a | is ‘estern ica—the only trade in which the canal By his instructions, Mr Childs was limited ton The snmmit passed, and the valley of the Rio eaval of the propesed dimensions, but thinks that | Avguet, do. 86 ae 16 would preve serviceable to pe. | Who were the laborers? Gibbon and I. We were alls Garvey ox the direc routes from lake Nicaragua to | Grande reached, the excavation, as a general rule, by changes in the model, etc. ships ef great sizo | SP 12, do. . 86 ua 12 7. That the heavy toll of $3 a ton on ships would pre. | The rest were mot even gleaners But it was well The ex- the Pasific, provided elsher of them should prove | will be ony the depth of the canal. Mr. Childs | ocuid be built to pass a sevesteen feet carl, That | 1tlmean. 8645 7115 15 30 | vent such vesrels.as could pass the canal from doing #0, | Seeepiejnonmenr ted cuasinete Mansitay hc Gea Practicable: Aso @onse( uence, adie made ne | {urd thet the lake, at ordinary high water, is only | ig to sey, the world may build ships for tho canal, | | Here it will be observed that the maximum range | inarmuch 48 on vesrel of 1.000 tons the toll would be | Tezalne Michiana an a eT ee otfance, which, ix his opinion, was practicable, he made no | 102 0 inches above the Pacific at high, and | instead of the canal company a canal for the chips | WA in the month of May, and was 23 dogrees. The | $3000. or more than the average earnings of such vousels or even larger than it was, it would have broken dowm with its own weight, Though the waters where I stood were bound on thei way to mert the streams of our northerm hemisphere, tnd to bring. for ail the practical purposes of commerce: | and navigation. the mouth of the Amazon and the While unhesitatingly conceding the immense local | mouth of the Missis*lypi into one, and place it before advantages of a canal to the Uuited States, these | our own door; yet fromthe head ef navigation on one capitalists confessed themselves uttorly unable to | stream to the head of navigation on the other the discover how it could Peis of compensating value Mo pean to be sailed could not be leas than ten thousand to the men who should invest their money in the en- | miles. terprise. They, therefore, for those and other rea- | Vast, many, and great, doubtless, are tho varieties of sons, declined to meet the views of the projectors Pony deve al oo ike ecid of ettsima rats ration, and their agents. +| and commerce in the valley of the Amazon cannot ba GUARANTEE OF THE UNITED STATES, ETC. Se Wie eae ci pede ae oa : tl table portions of the earth, piled one above By the Clayton .and Bulwer treaty, a qualified other a Sulake Bhelamhals tillage rat s 008 tenets guarantee was extended to this enterprise, in com- | here would transfer the productions of the east to thi mon with several others. There was a clause in- | Megniicent river basin and plece them within a few serted with direct reference to this company, although without mentioning its name. It provided on their voyages. $ That a canal of the proposed size would only be ‘ured by emall passenger steam: would not be adequate to pay the current expenses of | the enterprise. surveys from the superior lake of Managua to the Pacific. He, however, made seme observations on the line of ibe connection between the to lakes, by the river Tipitapa—if a channel,-dry for most, if not eli ef the year, can be called a river This isa souree of great regret, especially in view of the de- ciency, on the urveyed routes, of a good harbor on | the Pacific, for both Realejo aud the Gali of Fon- weca are all that cna be desired as ports The Jakes of Macsgua and Nicaragua eecupy a t transverse Valley, commensing on the gulf of For where it is neerly # bundred miles broad, mad se ted from the Pacific by slightly elevated ground, relieved by occasional low hills, and a fow wolcanic cones. The height of these grounds is barely suffisient to prevent the waters of the valley from flowing into the Pacific, and to turn them to- wards the Atlantic. This v. is contracted to- wards the south east, where i mpletely filled by lake Nicaragua, from whieh flows its outlet, the river San Juan, through s narrow valley of the sau 111 feet 5 inches above it at low tide, instead of 123 feet, as calculated a Mr Bailey. This descent he proposes to accomplish by fourteen locks, of eight | feet lift each, at Proper points in the valley of the | Rio Graude, which brings us to the Brito, tho ter- minus on the Pacific. The harbor of Brito, as it is called, or the point whers the Rio Grande enters the sea, is, in fact, no | harbor. There is here only a small angular inden- | tion of the land, partially protected by a low ledge | of rock, but nothing adequate for the terminus of an | mean range for the year, however, was only 15 de- grees. The heat at no time of the year is aa great as it is during the summer months in New York. For June, July, and August, of 1850, the mean aver- age thermometer at the town of Lansingburg, New ork, was 71 degrees 50 minutes, the mean highest ef the world! He states that most steamers draw less than seventcen feet, and quotes from Murray’s “ Treatise on Marine Engines,” to show that of 261 steam vessels, principally English, fifteen draw over | ature ey ony. one cot Ab Ho draught, and 225 less than seventeen feet. Buthe | 2) Pte ~ 4 neglects to tell us that experience and economy bach Shieh ben cop erdedoae a ita Ae ed Lead bea eh bens US peo ay gtd ibe | At Jamaica, Long Tndande for July and August of an those Wu mgd the ener, the evn ce | eee et a Sears aioe > , important work, like the proposed canal, or capable peer Golline line, eitel: pees ovat itake 2 | the mean lowest 61 degrees 50 minutes, and the mean of answering the commonest requisites of a port. | two feet. Besides, a canal of seventeen feet is only | range 43 degrees 27 minutes. To remedy this deficiency, Mr. Childs proposes to | adequate to the paseage of veasels of fifteen feet | ‘he temperature of aieeepes therefore, thermo- conetrust an artificial harbor, of thirty four acres | Graught. No canal ought to be contemplated with | metrically, is delightful. 0 nights are always area, by moles and jetties in the sea, and by exten- | 9 jess depth than twenty-five feet, and with propor. |-C0ol and agreeable. sive ssooreti in the pas, ri Mr. ae tionate top and bottom width. ee IRS Los of rain, Mr. ORE bes the rere of supposes, the excavations here wou! ein sind, it | ) careful imeasurements made for one year, from is obviously almost impossible to get proper founda- | gp he cnesepenke and Delaware Canal has a depth | Oey rg: 1850, to September 25, 1661, at Rivas tions for the immense sea walls and piers that would | be necessary to a work of this kind. On the con- | days exvy nil of Europe and the United States. Only @ few miles hack we had first entered the famoud mining district cf Peru. A large portion of the silver which constitutes the circulation The amount was taken in inches and decimals, and The Welland Canal is twenty-eight miles long, | akon: nine feet deep, thirty-five feet wide at bottom, and | ii i iz that it should ‘‘ bave a priority of claim, over every | from the range of mountains hame, into the Atlantic trary, if they should be chiefly in rock, as seems | ty. fe ‘ 8 Yess 7005 April... ‘ bi ae of ite ti ‘ one hundred and ten mil pass com i m ‘or 295 J The Caledonian Canal, between the eastern and western chores of Great Britain, is fi‘ty-nine miles in length, ef whieh twenty-one and a half miles is MIDDLE SECTION OF PROPOSED CANAL, LAKE NICA- | inland, and thirty-seven and a half through lakes. | RAGUA. It is filty fect wide at bottom, one hundred and ten | Proceeding from seventeen feet depth of water in | feet at top, and is re deep It by cart of | the lake, opposite to the river Lajas, in the direc- | Pasting frigates of ubisty:two gans, and merchant tion of the outlet of the lake at Fort San Carios, | The canal from Amsterdam to Niew Diepps, in there is ample water for vessels of all sizos, foradis- Holland, is fifty miles long, thirty-six feet wide at t&nce of about fifty-one miles, to a point halfa mile | Lottom, and one hundred and twenty-four at top, | south of the Boceas islands. Here the depth of wa- and is twenty feet nine inches deep. ter diminishes rapidly to fourteen. feet. or the re- In respect to navigating the canal, according to maining five and a half miles to the fort, the wator Mr. Childs’ suggestions, steamers will propel them- is variable, averaging only about nine feet at low, selves, and sail vessels by tugs constructed for the and about fourteen feet at high water. Forthiadis- | purpose, except on tho portion west of the lake, | of five and a balf miles, therefore, an average | and between the river and port of San Juan, where under water excavation of eight feet would be re- |. the delay of the driving steamers in passing ¢! quired to mvke the channel, at low water, of the | locks would make the use ef animal power ady and Great Britain,” on condition that it should, | within ‘‘ one year from the date of the ratifisation” of the convention, ‘ conclude its arrangements and present evidence ef sufficient capital subscribed to accomplieh the undertaking.’ The treaty was rati- fied, and the ratifications exchan, July 5, 1850. No subscription of stock having taken place, and no evidence of Capital having been presented in the time specified, or indeod in any other time, the com- pany forfeited this special protection, in July, 1851, a year and a half ago THE TRANSIT COMPANY. This company, of which we have lately heard so much, derives its privileges from the canal charter, by arupplementary contract with the Nicaragua government. It is, however, entirely dependant upon it; and if the primitive eharter falls, the Tran- sit falls with it merce and navigation up and down this majestic water= course and its beautiful tributaries to turn back this stream of silver from its western eourse to the Pacific, and conduct it, with siewmers, down the Amazon to the United States, there to balance the stream of gold with: which we ere likely to be flooded from California and Austrelia? Questions which T contd not anewer, and reflections which I coulé not keep back, crowded upon ma, Op- ressed with their weight and the magnitude of the task efore me. turned tlowly and sadly away, secretly la- menting my own want of ubllity for this great naderta- King.aud rincerely regretting that the duty before me had not been avsigned to abler and better hands, The Amazon in Pern is called the Marafion. IG takes ita rise in about 1) deg. south, and flows N- N. W. for abort five huadred miles; thenee turning east, and constituting, according to the maps, (but the maps sro wyren gy) the bouadary line betweem Peru and Ecuader, for about eight hundred miles, by its windings. Crossing in Peru the head waters of 0’) width. Its greatest 8.210 proximity to the Atlantic is near its southera ex: tremity. from which, ov right live, itis about sixty mailer distant. The point of its nearest approach to the Pacific is near the middle of its length, where, by the shortest line, the distance is sbout eleven | Biles. The San Jaap river wat found by Mr. Childs to be, Mollowing its sinuosities, 119 miles ia length. It bas a great number of tributaries, geverally sinall, with the exception of the San Careos and Serapiqui, @hich come in from the hiils of Costa Rica, on the South. The first of these enters the San Juan at @ixiy five miles, and the seeond nin miles, below 7 These streams flow through valleys trans- wersely to thatof theSan Juan, which ie further intersected by ranges of hills coming in both from the north #nd the eonth, at the rapids del Toro, Castillo, Machuea, ete the purpose to be in earth and sand, Mr Childs estimates the cost at a little over $2,600,000. ‘cb. Total imches,. . . For the ans) ar, from September 9, 1850, to September 9, 1861, the amount of rain was 97.71 | incbes. The whole number of days during which rain fell was 139, and the whole number of dry days was 226, During the six months from May to Octo- ber, inclusive, dietinguished ag the wet season, the whole fall was 90.89 inches, and during the remain- ing six months. distinguished as the dry season, only 6 82inches. These observations, however, were at Rivas, under the lee of the volcano of Ometepec, where more rain falla than at Granada or Leon, in | the more northern portion of the State. At Rivas | there was but one month, February, in which no tain fell. In 1850, im Leon, no rain fell for three 4 " i Article VILL. of the supplemen- “nid aa Saal ea epth of the anal, or seventéen feet. Batifthe ble. Calculating twenty-four minutes as tho time | months, from the first of January to the first of — the main stream, Lieut. Horndon reached the banks allel 0 i Pact ce a a separaied oa ort Pagel etic pac leg im or apa apie Mgt cha ein say the An ; gs i svat. Wealee m ait bagel all the rights se. | Of the Husllsga, = noble tributary, and embarked eye fowo-tbirde of the length A gry lake, by vation would be but an average of threo feet. it is calculated, could be passed in » day. The | ‘he average annual fall of rain and snow in the ood pte inpitecstbe'y poo ip by it shail | upon it at Tings Maria, He descended it to ite hile of comparatively modsrnte acclivity and elova- | Mt. Childs proposes to protect this portion of the | aversge rates of speed with which steamers might | State of New York, during the ten yoars prooeding | S's wiemever the primary charter of the 214 of Septem | junction with the main siream, and thence to tha channel by rows of piles driven ov each side, along fely move in the inland porti of the Lis Sion, in most cases capable of cultivation to their 1846, according to the report, of the Regonts of the | ter. 1s40, (the eanal charter.) ehall expire by its ownii- | mouth of the iatter by a river navigation of not lesa PASTE! x — VER SAN y | horse power might move on the canal at the rate of Ww gals eth bist 9 ae oo ito two mies an hour; and on the river and lake with come now to the section between Lake Nict | gn average speed of four miles per hoar. For | ragua and the Atlantic, through or along the river | steamers, therefore, the Passage from sea to soa is | San Juan. Excepting a small settlement at the | estimated at ie hoe and @ half hours, or about | ling vessels, seventy seven hours, Holmes county, Miss, by an almost unawlmous vote, | has subreribed $260,000 to the Missivsippi Central Rail- road, to be raised by county taxation. On the 29th ult., an Irish woman mamed McGrath, was bg ng A killed by the cowcatcher of the Lexington train “ its whole extent, and thinks, after the excavation | calculated at two and a half miles per hour; on the | University, is 34 14 inches. The greatest fall in any itations, or shall be otherwise forfeited or annalled, than three thousand five hundred miles, Se mn etnIaine eae *Ouiits | Were made, there would bo sufficient current be- | river portions, geven miles an hour; and on the lake, | one year diriog that period was 37.04 inches, and |” penckrmnieicas bite At Tarapoto he fell in with # clever New Eogland mys quite) across, with sammite varying in height, | *¥een them to keep the ehannel clear. | eleven miles an hour. Suiling vossels propelled by the Teast 32 10 inches Domestic Miscellany. blacksmith, who had been in that country fer many years, and frem whose valuable notes, touchiog the ‘commercial resources of the places visited by him, I derive the following :-— T to, situgted on the left bank of the Hual- and farnishing generally good opportunities for di- rect communi by means of ordinary roads, and in 2 sing! what is deomed a practica- bie route for opening » comwmanication by canal. to be given in this summary, that the refion around Rivas—the least salubrious section of Nicaragua— ig as healthy as ney, districts of equal extent and improvement in our Western States, and that Amer- Dr. Lovejoy is of opinion, for reasons sou aad Inga, six leagues above Chasuta, the head of unin- EXAMINATION OF ROUTE VIA RIVER SAPOA. SMa Viek 4, i two days; fe feans aud Europeans may reside thero with at least | om the Fitchburg Railrosd, near the Tube Works. in gation from the sea, is one hundred Ds V Old Fort, tl i i Pt 7 terrupted navigation » This line lies chiefly in the department of Guana. | Castillo Visio, or id Fort, at thie Oastito rap roe or three and s quartor days. as good health ws is enjoyed by the people of these Bemersille. The roman was walking on a oe oe hes oa Thicty lengues from the city of Huannco, and aaste, now im dispute between Nicaragua and Costa San Juan is wholly uninhabited. This section, hith- FACILITIES FOR CONSTRUCTING THE CANAL. png aoe GO Pcp the Popa i who rpeke to her of the dangor. Her usbenid reeldes Breaky. four, rem Moxabemba. chase very r r Do i i iseare as they ex icaragua, | am o} che briek yark, im Cambridge, and she has boon ealthy, and free from afl annoying . Rica, and rominally occupied by the latter. It was | eho Sprite alt part of che proponed caterprig. | q, here are many considerations connected with | t40'ten with temperate and industrious habits, | the of teardecn children, all of whom are deed Tt is situated on a beautiful plain of from twent} She probability that the canal might be carried | “" >" Childs carried a line of lovel from the eke at | *0 ¢D’erprise of this kind, bosidesite feasibility ins aerose here, which gives us the clue to the eager | San Carlos to the port of San Juan, on the northorn Mere engineering point of view, auch as labor, ma- ‘eat Britain to secure the ter | ofthe stream. The whole distance from San terials, eto., etc. Teallof these Mr. Childs seoms fitorial pre Rica to the south | Carlos to seventeen foot depth of water in the har- | to bave devoted som . bank of the Ban Juan river, a portion of Lake Nica | a faemy hee - yg ag td wait the Rifeae | P bhvied Ane compared As ge oo ori, aon } id @epartment of Guanacaste. Costa | fall, from the surface of hi, jake to the surfase o' forests 0! icaragua are inferior im size, an o z rd purposes, @ British | highest tide in the harbor, is 107; feet—to lowest kind and quantity ef timber proper for ase, loss in | ®4¢F, in Up eerecnon Pony uniform temperature and dependency, England would thas have been enabled | tide, 108] feet. | proportion. Th called the ‘‘cedro,” or cedar, | delightful breezes, which sweep rep ko} bated to secure the control of the inter-oceanic canal, | Of the above distance, the first ninety-one miles, is produced in considerable abundance, andcan be | from Dt eeeiea Ul tae a & salubrity o: A awe which rhe had failed to obtain from Nicaragaa. or from San Carloe io half a mile below the Sers | usefully applied. It grows to @ great height, and | scarcely b ity 4 init ef oak inf 9 ‘The examination of this line. by Mr Childs, how- | piqui river, Mr. Childs proposes to make the river will produce timber bag Mo to forty test ‘tong, Juan, hs sa heaitte iy of the port, he considers the Gver, only proved its impracticability for the par- | naviesble by excavating its bed, and by construct and twelve to ecighte mare. The ‘ro- | country less healthy. pore of acanal. He found that to pass the sammit | ing cams, to he pasted by moans.of locks and short ble,” a species of oak, a OPINION OF COL. ADERT AND LT. COL, TURNBULL. se ecut 119 ~~ in tile be required, aud an rong the remaining sreaty east tte ‘J i nishes ary Cg! to be ag oS Although # different impression has been sought lockage from the lake of 350) feet, and adown- | canal to be constructed inland, or independent o! ‘nispero, jaurel,”? “mi “4 ‘ iekoge +4 the Pacificof 432 foot. “Water to sup- | the rivers. Of the whole fall, sixty. ono aad shelf | aes y very pose pus The *nisporo” is | * be produced in the public mind, yet the govern: | Dumaer of bis sister, In Boston, which bentenee hae the upper loc! it was found, sould only he ob- | feet occurs on that portion which it is proposed to twenty-nine per comt stronger than white oak, and | ment of the United States has no direct int in | sinee been commuted to impriconment im pool gg ined with difficulty, aod st great cost. Besides, | improve by dame, and on which there are to be | may be procured in sufficient quantities, in the | the proposed canal, nor manifested any other 0} ron for life, ay osgenr'ae aston) fs et ae # long rock-cut of three-fourths of a mile would be | eight locks, and the remaining forty-six andaquar- | opinion of Mr. Childs, to be relied on asa substi- | might naturally attach to any enterprise of sap | the ed Pang atl 8 teen the, yard of the pri- required, from the edge of the Ray of Salinas to | ter feet occurs on the inland portion of the canal, | tate for all the purposes in which onk is required. ved general importance surveys of Mr. andhe « dcop water, In short, the physical difficulties on | on which are to bo six lock#—fourteen locke in all. | He thinks that, in the aggreate, the forests of Ni- | Childs scem,,nevertheless, fo have been sent to the this live, if not of « nature to make the construction | . Mr ©bilds proposes to locate the first dam at the | caragua, in the sections traversed by the canal, | Secrotary of War, with » request for the opinion of a of a canal here impossible, wore, nevertheless, such | head of the Castillo rapids, a distance of upwards | will probably produce ail the lumber required. the government engineers. ‘r. Conrad politely re- Smonasty tein being well provided with comfortable lodging, and diet adapted to the climate, and subjeet to no un- necessary exposure, will, after becoming acclimated, do ly as mach labor as was formerly done on similar works in the new and unsettled portions of the State of New York.” ‘West of the Lake,” he to twenty-five leagues in circumference, which is intersected by many rivulets, The soil is fortile, Inst week, tebe | producing in great abundance cotton, coffee, sugary cos fnat 0, and cocoa, as well as everything else te which the eliseste is adapted. Here the plentata continues, without any other care than thst re- uired to remove the noxious weeds, to produce tt all vigor for from fifty to sitty years. Cotton ives a crop in six months from the seed; rico iw ive roonths; and indigo gross wild. Not cattle avd rheep thrive hero, and multiply most rapidly. Population of the town and its two ports im 1543, 5, ; aniual births about 235; deaths, 40. Prine cipal brauch of industry, cotton cloth—of whick they monufacturo between thirty five and forty thousand yards. [t is made by hand, and ono yard ¢ our common coarse cotton is worth there two of that. ‘The currency it white wax and this coarse cotton stuff of the try, which, in Chachapoyas, is worth twelve conts the yard. One pound of white wax is worth four yar: cotion; » good sized bull, one hundred yards; grown fat hog, sixty yard Miss Catharine Lodlum, a respeotable lady of Cincin- pati, bas become « victim of the spirit rapping masia, She was taken to the Columbus Asylum treated for insanity, caused by this deluei A letter was mailed at Auburn, New Yerk, om the 27th ult , conteining a certificate of depesit in the Tompkins County Bank. tor ten hundred and eighty four dollars, and also a draft on the Syracuse Uity Bank, drawn by the Cayuga County Bank, for nine hundred and sixteen dollars, whioh was broken open and the eontents abstracted. the letter and envelope having been found in the street in Syracuse. An Irishman was killed in Woreoster, on the 23th ult., “in an affray, in which he waa kicked upon a sore leg, re- sulilng im his bleeding to death, Thomas Davis, convicted and sentenced to be hung for son. ; ‘The amount of duties paid on importations the first | mer from fe nnn to Dovigns sareuene © $30; the | steamer was $200,000. | r ; ; Hen Col. Turnbull, of a big sheep, two as to make it lmprecticabsble | of thirty-seven miles from she lake, end te pass the | Stone —Aloag the siver Ben duan the rock is Sere oe sepsreetion ten gi On the 29th ult., a rtevedore, named Henry Laster, em- | varie: twonty-iive pounds of oeffee. six yarda, twen- BIAMINATION OF ROUTE FROM MOUTH OF THE Rio | Tpids by moans of @ lateral canst. By means. of | ge a br Ga aerte een Be Cains Sieaer epinion) To Peminter etter tinted “dacohe ony ployed by the Lowell Railroad Company, at the Boston | i. fy, gallons of rum, twelve yards; a layin this dam be proposes to raise the water, at that comet asi : | point, twenty-pne and a balf feet, and the entire | thinks, it may be found Ait for the purposes required. | ‘The line from lake Nicaragwa to the Pacific to | Jevel of iake Nicaragua five feet above its lowest | On the west side of the lake, limestone quarries Which publie attention hae been most directed is | stages, or, in other words, to keep it at high water | were found capable of producing good lime in abun- | ight-bi 4, was killed almost instantly by the 5 ret of no tored In’ the temple, The decensed loaves a | £ wife and four or five obildren. Bre pews of ied i Pea our ounces of wax; achicken, two ounces; tw ve pounds of rice in the husk, & halt pound of wax; ounces; twonty five 1852. Proseeding upon Mr. Childs’ data, thoy think bis plan practicable; that his estimates for o canal of seventeen fect are liberal; and that some Mr. Joseph 8. Ruth, of Philadelphia, atteshad to the | Dounds beans, four ounces; @ basket of yuoas, } mark. The fall at this di be 16 feet. Ho | dance. The stone, lly, between tho Iakeand | reduotions might possibly be made. They think | 4, fates coast survey, was drowned in the Columbia POw . ene starting from the mouth of the Mio Lajas, @ | Teenie also six thes Jams, for of eight os} fall, | Pacific, on the propored eanal lino, was not good, | that a shorter fine pone te traced between che port | Vnitr d eae oaee by the upsetiing of a pilotboat, weighing from’ fifty to sixty pounds, two ounces; of San Juan and the point of intersection with tho river, and recommend another survey of that fow wiles below the town of Rivas, or Nicaragua, | one of fourteen and a halt feet, and one of thirte put it was thought that in oase of need it might be fo the port of San Juan del Sur, or Concordia, on | Gazaway Bell received blow from some person ne and abalffeet. Between all of these there would | obtained for Granada, sixty miles to the northwest, | twenty-five pounds weed cotton, eight ten a known, at Augnsts, Ga , on the 2ist ult., from the effects | itty bunch of plantaina, weighing from forty to vunds, three needles. Storax, cinnamon, milks of fi hree shad been | be more or less excavation of the bed of | and from a lowor point on the isthmus. Vory good section. of which he died on the 25th, 5 | seeae cree ie ane Le TIBL: Uy Gattatee, 2 | sometimes in earth, Sod chen in tacke’ en ren”'| eedcuncoat alaoe-were found, O28. woos foes | OPINION OF BRITISH ENGINEERS, Information hes been roeeired at Albany that che {ines ume. ang other produaté ofthe forests, have ish engineer, and the last by Mr. yee an 5 pares "tag $e improve the harbor of San ple water lime, of @ fair quality, may be ob- | The American Minister in England, at the requost Leek eo eee Schuylersville would be repair- | from the Todinns at macrély nominal prices. lishman, under the republic of Central America, uan by moles, etc., and to construct an artifisial ined. ‘ of the company, appears to have transmitted Col. nes | _ Tho land transportation from Tarapota to Moya Anacien” ken intdnt er touk Calleteo thirteen acres on TB Ms OF the capacity of | rev rorkaol the-eanal would ve attondel with | Childs’ surveys to the Ear! of Malmesbury, with «| yot'porow omtee wee neioualy injured st fre in thal | bamba, with its population of 15,000, is dono on the and Bailey was governed by the ciroumstance of @ In respect to the amount of water in the Ban | vast difficulties, resulting from a lack of ali the es | wish that he would submit it to competent English | city on the 28th backs of Indians. Seventy-five pounds makes load, EEE EEE ee