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Show TELEGRAPHIC CENTRAL AMERICA. Proftptwt, of h Ilvr'oii of 1 ratio to Our Alluuliv Cou(. Waahinston, 20. George William-Ben, William-Ben, our minister to Uiuiti'iuala, writes the treasury ilVpiirtinent tliat there aeema to be a diepoMtion on tho part of tho governments of Guatemala, Guate-mala, Honduras and 'Nicaragua to increase ihe lacililie of communication communica-tion on the Caribbean ecu. The government ot Guatemala ie trying to make a contract with Ihe Went India auxiliary Bjilish company to touch once more at port .Santo Tomas, in the gulf of Honduras. It lias a large number of laborers under the charge of its highest military ofli-cialrj ofli-cialrj at work on the road to Santo Tomas, which the prime minister saysj will be completed in t:mo to forward articles to our centennial by that route. It has sent an agent to the United States to buy a steamer, for the river Motagua, which empties ' into the b;iv of Hondurns. The government of Honduras haa loused its railroad from I'urrto Cotcz to San Perdo to two parties with extraordinary ex-traordinary privileges. Minister Willimnaoii concludes his letter us follows: Fiieaf! facts soeiu in indicate indi-cate a present dispo ition nn the part of all the governments but that . f Salvador to obtain facilities of coni-mu coni-mu mention throui;!. llm Cirri l -an porls. No climb', this is in part due to the yi viva of old ideas and in part to wluitis understood to bo a dissatisfaction dissatis-faction with the high rates of the , Pacific Mail steamship company. ! .Should the plans succeed and the , trade be partly turned in the lines of the new communication, the result cannot fail to be beneficial to our country. If our countrymen choose to avail themselves of tiieir proximity, proxim-ity, San Francisco, I think, wouhl not lose anyhing, and our great com- ' i mercial cities on the Atlantic au-1 : Gulf ought to increase the trade with j Central America very considerably, i Should conin.unicat:or,s be opened and kept open, it is likely irnmigra- ' lion will be invited, without which, in the judgment ol a'l impartial minds, native and foreign, in these countries, their progress must continue con-tinue to be very slow. |