The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-10-10


The Revelation in Northern Mexico.
Dispatches fsn The South give butin
very unsatisfactory manner, some ihrther de-,
taieoE The insureetion ID NorthsiE Mexico
and its progress. The scene oi tsxolutionis
ia she Ststeso Tsplaulipas, New leon and
C0hahpila, That part Of ihs country in 3 Nhieh
theupeEa.ionsof the AmedcgqsmyyuudsE
Gen Tsylob Te,a Chief coafhsd.s scstnsrs
go, on the Rio Gmnde, and Tanpico, on the
Gull, are fbeth ID The hands .of The fesolu-
siohists. winch shows that iheyiate masters
ofthe two sstrsmirissoi iTamaulipas. New
Santa snder is the cepitals Maaporas, RENO
ss, and Mier are all small towns in the prov
inces. The Stute of New Leon lies west of
Tamauiipas Monterey where Gen. Taylor
achieved such a triumph, Is Its capital Go
hula lies west Of New Leon, and Saltillo is
its capital. The design Of the revolution.
lists is TO erect these States into the Repub-
lie of Sierra Madre. That it will be success
tul there is very little doabt. The govern
ment. of Mexico is already in, deb., its an
nual income isinsuficient to defray its annu-
al expenses, and tlere are no means which
can be resorted TO. except plundering the
clergy, to raise any funds. This state olaf
fairs has tended to produce dissatisfaction
ard to invite insurection. Arista's elec-
tion 10 tbe presidency ii was thought would
revive confidence andfeplenish the treasury,
but il has failed, like its predecessors, and
the nationapppears now to be falling to
pieces The large slice Of territory which
the revolutionists 10 the north intend to
take jsthe first ste p onlyin the work Of dis
membe rment. s;f gsessfS sN
The Great Earthquakein Italy.
We gave accounts, q few days since, Of a
most destructive earthquake in Italy. The
calamitywas evengreatef than weimagined.
The Washington Republic publishes a letter
from the Hon, E. Joy Morris, the American
Minister to Naples, giving minute account
Of the terrible earthquake which occurred in
The western portion Of the kingdom Of Ma
pies, on the esl4thi Of July, by which some
$500 lives were lost, and several towns Ell
ther totally pfostrated or greatly damaged.--
Mr.. Morris says that previous to The shock a
small stream that runs near the city Of MeIfi
suddenly appeared, and adds 81
.r.At the first shock, Melf, which contains
ten thousand inhabitants, was ptostrated in
the dust, nothing bat few cfumbling walls
surviving the general ruin. An unknown
number Of its inhabitants were buried under
the falling mass Of fabrics. Upt to the pres
ent moment seven hundred dead bodies have
been disinterred, and many others are con-
stantly being found, In Canossa, the an
cient Canosinm, founded by Diomed, and
whose walls once enclosed circuit Of six
teen miles, three hundred and serenty-six
houses were thrown DOWN.. 'saj-,iS
= One4half OF the city Of Venosa, the an
cient Vsnasia, containing six, thousand in.
habitants, and celebrated as the birthplace OF
Horace, was destroyed. Tie mountain
provinces of the Abruzzi and of Calabria,
where the earthquake of 1883 destroyed
three hundred cities and buried thirty thou.
sand hunan beings, having thus far escaped.
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