The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-23
From Tehuantepec.

The Panama papers announce the arrival there,
on the 9TH inst. of the steamer Gold Hunter, nine
and half days from Acapulco, via Realejo, in
three and half days.
The Panama Star gives the following informa-
ton
Left at Acapulco steamers Northerner and New
Orleans, both arrived some time on the evening of
the 22d ut. Also, bark J. Merrhew, discharging
coal bark Canton, from San Francisco, with pas
sengers for Panama the vessel had been sold and
the passengers left her. Brig Anna, of Newbury-
port, arrived on t, 18th u't, being forty days from
San Francisco, also bound to this place with pas.
sengers, short of water and provisions. The
greater part of her passengers left her, and came
| down the Gold Hunter
On the 9th. in lat ~ deg. 80 min. ~, long. 90
deg. W., the Gold Hunter encountered severe
gale from the southeast, which fully tested her ad-
mrable qualities as sea-goiDg steamer. The
gale lasted thirty-sx hours, and blew most of the
time with great violence.
Left in Realejo British ship Lady Amherst and
banks Shannon and Times-former waiting orders,
two latter discharging eoa-French bark Odeille
and American schooner Indiana.
great many Americans who had settled in Re-
alejo are leaving the place. The hotels of which
great many had been started, are daily brought
to the hammer. Building, which had commenced
with great activity, has received a sudden check,
and the noisy din Of improvement has given way
| to the quiet of olden times. And yet many of the
| inhabitants entertain strong expectations that Re-
| alejo will yet be place of importance. San Juan
which is talked Of as being the port on the Pacific
side in the Nicaragua route is carried through
presents poor harbor that the steamers will be
obliged TO make their depot at Realeo, and use San
Juan only as the place Of receiving and disem-
barking passengers
| The Gold Hunter left San Francisco on the 22d
Of March, in the employ Of the Tehuantepec Rail
road Company, with about sixty passengers. She
arrived at Port Ventosa, lat. 16 deg. min lon. 95
| deg. min. w., the 9Th Of April, at which place
she landed her passengers, who Immediately pro-
| ceeded across the country mules for Vera Cruz
a distance Of 145 miles-the steamer Alabama
having discontinued her trips to Mnatitan, in
sequence of some difficulty with the Government.
The Star continues: We have been furnished
| by friend with another statement in relation to
the Gold Hunters passengers. He states that
they landed at Ventosa Bay, and started across the
country. After making one days journey at a
town called Chutan, they overtaken by a
party Of Mexican dragons, who ordered them
back, but they paid no attention to them, and next
| morning resumed their journey towards Vera Cruz.
Al Ventosa, the photographic corps Of the Te-
huantepec Survey were stationed under the charge
of Passed Midshipman Temple
| Major Barnard had nearly completed his sur
veys, and had discovered line where the grade
| would be in the worst place less than sixty feet.
The local authorities OF Tehuantepec are warmly
IN favor OF the enterprise, and prepared to make
any sacrifice to favor it.
The Gold Hunter was not permitted to land
some implements, which she had brought for the
| use Of the Company, upon the pretence that the
treaty had not yet been ratified and that Ventosa
was not port of entry.
| No efforts made, however, to detain the
boat, or throw any impeachment in the way of her
passengers. But on the contrary, clearance was
readily granted her at the Custom house, and
mules were profered from all quarters for the use
| of the passengers.
The climate on the Isthmus is beautiful and
| remarkably healthy.
i The Gold Hunter remained ten days at Ventoss
and Boco Barro, part of which time she EN-.
ployed in making surveys.
On the 10Th OF April an entertainment was given
on board at ventosa, at which present the
Governor and his suite, the Chief of the Custom
house Department, the Judges of the District, the
COMMANDMENT chief OF the Army. with his aids
and several ladies' and gentlemen Of the most dis
ting ushed families of Tehuantepec, and also Mr.
Webster, U. s. Consul, and the gentlemen of I" tn,
survey"
i The Gold Hunter left Ventosa on the morning
OF the 10th April. and arrived at Acapulco on tn,
evening Of the 9Th, making the run in exactly 81
hours, distance Of 359 miles.
On Saturday, Sd instant, at nine o'clock A. NJ.
| in latitude deg. rs min. north, 80 deg 80 min
west, spoke propeller Columbus, hence for Sar
Francisco. Saw several vessels off the entrance O
the Bay beating up.
INDIAN FIGHTING ExPEcrEp.-we find thi
interesting piece of intelligence in the ST. Loui
Intelligencer of the l7th instant:
| Indian Difficulties, efc.-We learn from the off
GERS of the DIR. franklin, No. Q, that when the,
left 81. Paul, Minnesota, a report was current tina
| large war party of Sioux Indians had gone on
against the Chippewas, and that most probabl,
ere TINS, the two tribes have met, and an Indian