Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-11-10
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IN COLOMBIA.

IhOOBLES IN COLOMBIA
The schooner Thaddeus, Capt. DAYTON, in Is dave
from Carthagena, arrived at New York on Wednesday.
bringing Car hagena papers TO the 9th OF October i'm
elusive. The New York Post saws that some cons;da
rabe political disturbances had taken place in Colombia:
and Capt Dayton reports that Carhs gena was in state
oil great confusion and uproar when he sailed The
occasion o this was the of the urre con which
Senera Corova had excited in Antigua the capital of
Cauca, an tl, intelligence OF which had lust
from Bnso'a handful published Carhagena OH the
On oil october, announcing this ence saws that
the Secretary oil anticipates from this event no
other conse than the evils which the temerv
Of Its author will bring upon the province which has
been Tie theatre OF this nsurreciion The same paper
airms that Cordovas party in AnIuis consisted of
y about iorty fifty persons that he had been Joined
oy no MAJ" OF influence riches note, and that alarm
was let AT Bogoa on account Of what had taken Mace
From another paper OF the 9th, il APPEARS that an
attempt had been made by Colonel Francisco Urdaneta
a, the order OF the War Department. TO arrest Cane
raj Cordovs, his brother, Salvador Cordova and his
brother in-aw. the Governor of the Province the three
principal leaders Of the rebellion. Urdaneta without
single soldier and without any other means than hi.
own activity, had collected party for the purpose OF
making the arrest, but his plan being discovered by
Cordova. he found himself obliged hasten its exc
cuiion He sent twenty men with officer TO Rio Ne
gro to seize Coriova but the latter was on his guard
and the plan was frustrated. Cordova then march ed
upon Modelling and Urdaneta came out 10 meet him
out The principal men OF the neigh hood and the civil
authorities nterfered between the combatans and
vented an engagement Cordova agreed to guarantee
the lives and property Of those who had opposed him
and Urdaneta found himself obliged 10 leave the pro-
vince. He reported that his way through the pro
vince he found the people every where friendly TO the
LiberstOr.
General Cordova had with him his veterans, his aid
de. camps, and his brother. He had collected few
militia OF Ko Negro, and although these did not ex-
ceed % IN number, they were enough TO prevent any
attempt Of The unsrmed inhabitants against him. He
had sent a detachment Of 10 men 10 occupy Mare
point on the MagdaIena, where a river OF that nam,
emptes into II, and where UrdaDeta had stationed him
sell in order 10 disptre them their arrival Urd.
meta. in despatch the Secretary of War state,
Codova had sent his procama,ions divers persons in
Cauca and others TO Bogoia that hoev his party in
Antigua consisted only Of few young men of Rio Ne
gro that the inhabitants Of that place had sent to him
his return. and that with 200 neD he would
restore the Province TO tranquility.
The precise date of these events does not apoear froo
any paper we have received. The Dispatch however
Ordaneta from Mare sent soon after they had taken
place, was dated the 2I.t Of September On the 26,
oil September, the government of Colombia ordered
column oil 700 veterans TO march. under the comma nd
OF Zen Oleary, against Cordova. On the same tav
dispatches were received from the
al IN the department of the Csuca, announcing the
measures he had taken to prevent the spread Of the in
surrecton.