New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-12
VOLUME XII.
rEHuArTEpEc CORRESPONDENTS.

hthmus Ne,cs-Afairs Of the Tthuantepec Com.
panu-Ne,o Steamsrs-1fatters Frightening Up
n little Personal Reterence-Brutat Usage Of a
White Man-O6iciai Lnterttrence-Cobos Backs
Out from his intended descent on the Isthmus--
Local and Native Rous-Shoacer of Frogs-Cu-
yious Case Of the Sale of a French Subject
Other Items.
Special to the New Orleans Crescentl
ANATIrLAN, July 3, 1859.
Eds. Crescent: The news on the Isthmus, apart
from the presence Of Mr.. McLane and the exciting
remarks his energetic policy has called forth, is not
Of much account.
The sffairs OF the Tehuantepec Company continue
just as left them at my last communication per the
Indianola, with the exception that confidence is
gradually returning to the people here, that the
Tehuantepec Company must weather the storm and
come out yet with coors flying above all discourage
ment and all opposition. The action Of the Board Of
Directors in New Orleans, the calm and quiet move
ments of the Company's agents, and the continued
shipments of valuable machinery to this place, gives
renewed assurance that the work undertaken years
ago will not be given up until it is consummated.
The steamer Webb arrived here on the morning of
the LIST of July, and her mails and passengers were
Immediately sent forward on the Such. The Webb
also broughtove shaft for the Allegheny Belle,
and that fine boat will be in running order very
quickly. She will make sensation up the river for
she is much nicer boat than the Suchil and better
calculated to accommodate passengers. am happy
to state that arrangements have been made to put a
new steamship on the route between New Orleans
and this place the l2th and that old favorte,
John A. Diamond will come down on her as purser.
The fact is, Diamond is looking i'll at present, and if
his position is not changed and his quarters made
more comfortable, the ailment may end sadly. Just
think of the gay and dashing purser of the Quaker
City-the attentive gentleman, however, when bust.
has to be attended to-seepng on the deck of a
towboat and making his toilet each morning where
| the availability of barber shop was never thought
| of. | saw him one morning, and the idea of coal
HEAVIER smote me like chunk of anthracite but
anon, and the butterfly came forth. Those sad times
will vanish after this, for the better day is come, and
Diamond will now be in his proper element
| While Mr.. McLane has been here, several consular
questions have come up, and I could see that the
Minister only wished for an occasion to make the ma
tive officers here feel that the time for change in
the treatment of American citizens nigh at hand
They were guarded. however, in their conduct, anG
the wish disappointed but the evident desire OF
his part for the right kind of an excuse to bring hi:
mission to abrupt close, has produced good fruit
1t has given encouragement to the better class o
Americans, while it has excited suspicion amongs
the Mexicans that perhaps they had better not pro
woke bitter feelings in those who prospectively
| the joint owners Of the country.
| However, must put down the black With the white
and while give credit to all partes must say tha
sometimes / very much doubt if conflict between
the natives and foreigners of this place can be muc
longer avoided. The feeling of detestation for us il
growing stronger every day, and it was never NOR
iIi,uf atoI han Ja
six policemen arrested an American Citizen and afte
he in their charge they beat him with thei
swords until his back black and blue with stripes
He had quarreled with negro, and for some impel
tinence from tive darkey had drawn out his knife an
pistol The police saw the row and advanced to sup
press it. Immediately the darkey fed, and the whit
man gave up his weapons. He was arrested an
started to the prison through heavy rain, himse
and his jailors running all the way, he before an
they behind him, striking him at every jump wit
their bare swords, And again, after he in prison
they beat him. aud at last threatened to send him
to Acayucan, thirty miles distant, to be tried befor
the Court of First Instance. The Minister made som
inquiry, and the Consul, Mr.. A. c. Allen, immediael
went up to the Court and asked for the discharge
the The Judge at first refused, but after
while he consented to release the man, provided
|
take him on board the Brooklyn, and thus that que
tion was settled, Do not think that the case did ne
attract attention amongst the American citizens, fe
it did, and if there had been rain at the time, an
!, the usual number of Americans had been on tn
L streets, there would have been precious row, an
the police would have caught terrible thrashn
This feeling is on the increase, aud sometime thel
: will come difficulty here when the Americans an
> MeXicans will come in conflict, and fearful igl
: will result.
| have observed with considerable interest th
appearance in this city, since Mr. McLane came
=. Minatitan, of quite number of marines from Il
I sloop of-war Brooklyn. They are fine looking 81
of fellows, and their conduct has been very cor
mendable but the principal feeling evoked by the
l. appearance has been that of pride at the sensatie
N they created. Their presence was visible sign
the power they represented, and it has been so lo1
y since anything belonging to our navy has been SET
here that people almost forgot. we had ships of
u or regiments of troops.
The reported descent of Cobos on Oaxaca and Il
consequent trepidation of the people hereabout
turns out to be incorrect Cobos started for OaXaC
y aud on the road had slight engagement with sor
Lberalists, about forty miles from the town, whit
although it left him victor, yet convinced him th
he had no business coming any further this way, IL
~ less he had the hope Of support from the rear.
70 ing without this hope, he turned back and count
marched on Guanajuato, where his troops We
y needed to assist Woll. Thus we have been deliver
- from any immediate danger, although am assur
d by gentleman from Mexico that Miramon has
: termned to take this Isthmus as soon as possib
- - hoping by that step to force the United States
recognize and treat with him. If there was no d;
~ ger to great interests and to many lives should Ii
to see him succeed in his project, for then sho,
" feel that the United States could not avoid an act
Il interference.
~ We have had another row in the town of Aca,
cam, thirty miles from here, in which four or f
Mexicans were killed. 1t originated in Montag
and Capulet feud, aud the Victims like Mercut
were only adherents, not principals. Two families
I" Acayucam pretend to divide the town, but the on
III tion generally favors the strongest after fight
SO it did on the lth inst when the Hernandez fam
le came off first best
hs The killing mania seems to be spreading. Els
'n Indians started from the mahogany cuttings of
Oh Allen last week to come to town. On the roa,
fight sprung up and several persons were wound
an and one Indian Drained. The parties fought W
a' sticks, rocks and whatever they could fnd, and
is one that was killed actually had his brains knock
out. All of them were arrested and brought to to-
for trial.
Vi curious case is now the subject of conversa