Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-07-11
RETURN OF THE TEHUANTEPEC EXPEDI-
TON

We have already announced the arr wal at New Or
leans oil the major portion of the members of the Te
husntepec Surveying Expedition, and the telegraph
has likewise apprsed the reader of the highhanded
measures ofthe Mexican Government 10 ordering the
remainder OF the party to leave the country. We
learn from the N. o. Pieayune, that call the essential
surveys, at least those which go to show the entire
practicability of the route are now complete. Mr..
Murphy had surveyed seventy miles of the Uspanapa
discoverei extensive iron and coal Mines and demon
sraed the feasibility Of route on the east side, as
favorable it not more So than the one already run. In
the same connection, Mr.. j. J. Williams, who lately
returned from series OF reconnoisances in the Cord
eras found no less than passes all of which ad-
mted of grade of not more than sixty feet; and
what is yet more important found sources Of water
sufficient for the supply Of the summit level of ship
canal.
series ofrevoutons (says the Picayune, had broken
out at several points the sthmus owing doubtless
to the rejection of the Tehuanepec treaty and the at
tude assumed by the Mexican Government. At Mo.
aocan and at Juchtan several had been made,
and troops were drafted from Acayucan on the North
and Oaaca on the South, to suppress these manifesto.
tons OF preference Tor the Americans and the project
which promises to exercise such important influence
upon the future destinies of the isthmus.
THREATENED COLLISION.
BY this arrival the editors OF the Picayune obtained
the following further particulars in relation to the illegal
seizure Of the Schooner Helen Mar Zone OF the vessels
belonging to the Surveying Expedition by the Mexican
authorities:
"On the Sh ult., Immediately after the departure of
the U: S. revenue cutter Duane, the Commandant at
Mnatitlan produced an order from the Governor at
Vera Cruz to send the Helen Mar and her crew Ia
that place, as prize To this Capt Sekirk objected
until complete inventory of his vessel, her lacke
srores and appointments had been rendered him BY the
coed In the schooner, but at the time yielded her
up to the officials "cJothed with little brief authority
and no longer intnodated by the presence OF the Du.
are, the Commandant ordered guard OF soldiers TO
force the captain and board. To this out
rageous command Capt Selkirk replied that he would
perish rather than be driven like dog at the point OF
Mexican bayonet Things now began to assume seri-
Gus attitude But fortunately the surveying parties began
to concentrate at Mnatan, and learning the state oil
affairs determined not to stand idle witnesses TO any
such scene as that which the valiant Commandant pro-
posed to enact Indeed by nghtfa preparations were
made in good sober seriousness resist. Intelligence
OF this determination conveyed to the military who
wisely concluded tha discretion the tier part of
vaor, and backed out. Mr. Murphy, of the surveying
expedition waited upon the Commandant and sugges-
passports at the time telling him OF the Eecess.
ty for his immediate compliance. The next morning
this was done, and Capt. Selkirk LETT for Vera Cruz
where the matter will be submitted to trial. Indeed,
throughout the whole affair." growing as it doubtless
did out of the rejection OF the treaty. the Mexican Co
vernment has behaved with its accustomed hostility to
every thing American. When is considered that the
Helen Mar cleared with all proper and necessary pa
pers from Vera Cruz and that her entrance to the Coat
Zacoacos was in strict accordance with the acknow-
lodged revenue laws of Mexico, the case seems to call
for the immediate action of the State Department at
Washington"