New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-22

public clamor, and on last Wednesday, owing to th
circulation of malicious stories up the country
! the mahogany cutters I. about Acayuca, thirt
miles from Minatitan, assembled and threatened t
come to this place for the purpose of tearing dow
J the Consul's house. As q matter of course ever
American in town would have resisted such an oul
rage, and the talk for time was all about guns pif
tolls and aghtng. Fortunately for all parties tn
enters" did not come down. for row of that kin
would have created great complications on this Istt
| mus. There are about Eve hundred Americans scat
tered about the line of the road, and they would al
combine against any aggression by the natives and
fight should once commence there is no man VIII
could tell what the result might be. For this reaso
the American Consul has asked that United State
vessel be sent to this port and believe Mr.. Nolan
has promised to give the solicitation favorable con
sideration.
The next case of excitement grew out of the threat
ened seizure of the American schooner Lanfeer Capt
Raymond, for smuggling, and the company's steamer
Suchil as an accessory. Officers were actually placed
on shore to watch both Of these vessels owing to the
discovery as they said that certain packages Of ale
being secretly sent from the Lanfeer on to the
Suchil. What truth there was in the charge am moi
able to determine but the steamer Suchil was al
most instantly released totally free from suspicion
1 but an active surveillance was kept up on the
| schooner. The contraband trade was ultimately
traced, believe to her Sailors and thus the matter
ended much to the relief of all the parties implicated
The condition of the road at the present time could
not be made much better, but unfortunately it will
not continue long, for the rainy season will set in
next month and then the travel will be much i'm.
peded. Contractors here, however, to build the
necessary boats with which to the rivers and
lumber has already been sent up to Suchil to con.
struct all the necessary bridges Mr.. Burke of New
Orleans has this contract and is in daily expectation
Of the necessary iron work with which to complete
the work on the boats. In conversation with DR..
Jones OF the engineer corps who arrived here yester
day. learn that the survey the line of the road
has marked out superior route from that selected by
Major Barnard and that their estimates bring the ex-
pense within the cost calculated by that gentleman
Everything far is most favorable for the company,
and confidence here is established, provided the
Juarez Government can sustain itself.
As to work and living on the Isthmus cannot re.
port very favoraby at present. If men are willing to
work on their own account at farming, or will de-
mand less wages they may obtain labor but people
here cannot enter into extensive improvements while
carpenters ask higher prices than they do in New
Orleans. And more particularly is this the case while
the transit of passengers is so limited as at present
But when the company has arranged all its steamers
coaches, animals and railroads in good running order
then the work hereabonts will increase in ten.fold
ratio. Living is high, board averaging from 81 to 50
per day. Men who are willing to work on their own
account can find better opportunities to acquire homes
than they in Texas, and the wonderful wealth of
this country, in agricultural way, is beyond the
limits of a newspaper article to estimate.
The gold mines on this Isthmus are fixed fact,
but explorers needed develop them more fully
At present there few men working near Chi
vea but the water is very scarce, and the greater
part of the miners have suspended work until the
rainy season. The seasons Of Tehuantepec partake
of the usual Mexican character-half the year rain
and half the year none. Both of their seasons are
pleasant but most Of the residents here prefer the
fall or rainy season. It is cooler then and the BUSH
of the place is all done them for when the rains
are falling the rivers full the mahogany cutters
rafting down their logs vessels are crowding at
the wharves, and the town does its greatest trade
Fiftysx vessels loaded at this port last year, and it
is estimated that the number will swell up to seventy
for the coming season. Mahogany sells here at the
rate of from sl2 to SIC per tun and the business is
at present confined to three or four houses.
The Acayuca people have had revolution on a
very small scale, but 1t resulted in four deaths, not
A few days since the Acalde attempt.
ed to depose the common jaor, but the latter would
not submit and declared his intention to hold on to
The office. The Alcalde summoned posse, while the
ailor armed the prisoners and thus prepared the par
lies met. fight took place, and the Alcalde, the
ailor prisoner and one citizen were killed. squar-
ng accounts, after which, the prisoners fed into the
woods. have not heard how the matter terminated.
Isend you with this specimen of native silk which
found in great abundance in the woods hereabouts.
I is not very clean. but you will observe that the fibre
SUPERIOR and that the article with little cultva.
ion, could be made into the finest kind of silk. |
rave not learned sufficiently about it to describe it,
,nt there are parties here who sending quantities
abroad to be tested There is another article of value
hat grows here in great abundance which / will
speak of in my next. An American has invented a
machine for working it up, but he is applying for
patent for his invention at present. and requested me
not to mention 1t.
The Mexican war steamer Hidalgo, which you will
as the old United States running between
Havana and New York, is at this wharf all disman
tied and cast away, with nothing on board but her
and guns. Report says she was sold by
the Mexican Government last week to gentleman
belonging to the Tehuantepec Company for $4,000.
She cost originally $4,000, and to-day she is worth
$4,000 That was good trade for both parties, for
the Government could do nothing with her. while the
purchaser will make something handsome
understand that the Tehuantepec Company intend
to have survey made Of the Pacific coast from Aca
pulco and Boca Barrio, the lower extremity of the
Mexican Territory.
Speculatons have already commenced in real estate