New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-12
Empor.nnt an.sssigenee freu, woiivia.

KmportHHf EnseSs1SeacS rree1 HhOsAVfa'
We have received Lima papers which
bring US the following account Of very
serious outbreak which had taken place ia
SucTe, the capital of Bolivia, on the 9Th Of
Sept. last One of the papers dated the
eth says
Yesterday, little before O'Clock in the even.
ing, as Gen Belzu was walking on the Alameda
with Col. Laguna President of the Senate and
an aid de camp he met Don Augustip Moral.a.
and while he was talking with him, student
named Juan Sotomayor, came ont Of group Of
men who lad there stationed themselves, and
fred pistol at him, wounding him in the face.
the ball remaining buried close 20 one OF his
ears he fell on his face and then Morales dis
charged another pistol at his head, the muzzie
being only few inches from IT. but winch o"Y
slightly grazed him.
The aggressors then believing him to be dead
proclaimed the fall of the tyrast, as they called
him. and shouting Liberty attempted 70 sur
prise the barracks of the battalion AHfmant but
the commandment of that corps, Don Pedro Villa
mil. had been before hand with them, and the con
spirators terrified at the vtras uttered by the sol
ders in favor of General Belzu, fed precipitately
The Presidents escape was perfectly miraculous
Laguna and his Abide. Camp having been driven
from him, he remained for some time in the power
of his enemies The surgeons are going to OK
tract the ball and although it will be difficult
operation, they affirm that he runs no risk Of his
life This atrocious attack must have been the
result of some vast plan OF conspiracy May it
Ala ~ ire Draa m
to be Bailiyian, have any connection with our
country, as is generally feared p
Immediately after this the Congress met ana
decreed:
Firstly: That the means consecrated by the pc
litical Constitution OF the States not being sui
tcient, under the present circumstances, to pre-
serve order the Congress shall dictate such meas
ures as conducive to the safety of the country
Secondly: The Council of Ministers shall trom
this date remain charged with the supreme com
mand Of the Republic, until the recovery OF tho
constitutional President, and the Government Is
invested with all the powers conferred upon him
by the people.
Thirdly: Are declared beyond the pale Of the
law the notorious 0ssassins Augustin Morales.
Juan Sotomayor, and the othe authors oil tina
crime.
to the illustrious and heroic Capital 6ucre, and
to the Governor, for their noble deportmont in the
event of yesterday, and authorizes the Govern.
mcnt to order the appropriate rewards and Srat'i'-
cations
By later accounts we learn tba! it was ascef-
tanned that Col Laguna the President Of tho
Senate. was an accomplice in this horrible at
tempt. and he, together with Morales and Soto
1nayor. were condemned to be shot upon the saAo
spot on which they had attempted to murder tho
President and this execution as far MS regarded
Laguna, took place on the 18th
The ball lad been successfully extracted, and
the state of the Presidents health was satisact
DRY. 1t is presumed that this attempt was made
at the nstigation of Gen. Balliyian, who was
formerly President Of the Bolivian Republic aaa
his partizans, for we see that he left Valparaiso
having withdrawn to Chill, after his overthrow
on the 18th September; arrived at Copiapo GA
the l4th, and proceeded during the night to Alta
cana en- his way to Bolivia.