Panama.

Otago Witness, Issue 74, 16 October 1852, Page 1

Panama.

—We learn from Panama, that pas- ' senger trains now run on the Panama railroad regularly as far as Buena Vesta, to which point it was opened on the end of April. Colonel George M. Trotten, the chief engineer, expects to have the road opened to Freola on the 18th of the same month, leaving only two miles of river navigation. The regular trains leave Aspinwall at 6 a.m. daily. Mail trains are run on the arrival of the mail ships. Passengers leaving Aspinwall in the morning arrive at Gorgona the same day. Fare on car 5 dollars : from the end of railroad to Gorgona, in boats, from 1 dollar and oO cents to 3 dollars ; while by the old route from two to four days were ! consumed at an expense pecuniarily of from 10 to 13 dollars. The road is in excellent order, and the cars are equally in comfort to any on our northern roads. The " El Dorado" was the first ship to discharge her passengers and cargo directly from the ship to the wharf. She lay at the wharf while there, and received the treasure and passengers on board in the same way, with as much ease and security as could be done at the wharf in New York, thus avoiding 1 the danger and inconvenience attending the landing in small boats at Chagres. All the mail steamers land at Aspinwall, and Chagres was being deserted very fast. Many houses were being removed from there to Aspinwall, and the latter place was beginning to assume. ,- the appearance of a blisy' and thriving city.-^' ' Times. . , „'>V~.