Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-29

| tense feeling in the city of Mexico The panera
discussed the chalces openly, bat nothing result
ed from it. 'o'"'
On the Esd March, on one size Of the Ca;on
| bohito, IN Sonora, encounter took pace be-
tween three hundred Indians and detachment
| o. MeXlean regular troops and National Guards
The Mexicans were forced to retreat, but the In
dians suffered more in killed and wounded
Inc reception IN Vera Cruz of the news of the
rejection by Congress of the proposition to admit
foreign flour free of duty, created great excite
| ment.
=, On the night of 18th inst. the people of Vera
VI uH assembled IN the principal plaza and ap-
pointed commission from their number to re-
present their situation to the Ayuntamiento, and
70 reques; them to send to the North for three
thousand barrels of flour to supply the present
wants OF the people. The Porreair SAYS the as
s:emby was quiet but determined; and after pass
lug the necessary resolutions and appointing the
committees, retired TRANQUILITY to their homes
" = iii'ehght The Ayuntamiento asse mbled
,le same night and passed the following resolu-
luton:
mat wewil send abroad for such quantities of
flour as may be, in the judgment of the Ayuntami-
ehto, necessary for the consumption and supply of
this municipality.
The next day the Ayuntamiento reassembled
and passed several resolutions One calls upon
the principal military commandante and the col
lector OF the customs not to ob.truct in any way
the landing of flour imported by the Ayuntami-
ento; another resolves to send Immediately to
New Orleans for 5000 barrels of -four in five
portions OF 600 barrels each, to be sent monthlya
third says that the corporation will pay differ
entail duty sufficient to make the flour cost in We
ia Cruz Sl3 for each barrel of 300 pounds more
or less.
The remainder of the resolutions n1erely regu-
late the prices and weight of the bread, and pro-
vide that, If the bakers should not accede to these
resolutions, the Ayuntamiento will establish
bakery OF their own; but the last authorizes the
municipal officers to send to New Orleans, by the
brig Iehauntepec, for the first instament of the
flour.
From the tone Of the papers it is evident that
this movement in Vera Cruz is regarded as
pronuncamiento against the Government, and the
result was looked for with great anxiety The
PoTocnar asserts that there is no political end in
view, and that the measure is only what it pur-
ports to be- movement rendered necessary by the
pressing wants Of the people,
The small town of Tlacotapan has followed
the example of Vera Cruz, and pronounced in ia
vor OF the Introduction Of foreign -four
The Sagto says the news from the State of Du-
range continues to be of most melancholy ma
cure. Hunger, sickness and death are the sub
]ects OF every letter. and the inhabitants dare not
venture fve steps from their houses without ex-
posing themselves to the danger OF being killed by
the Indians.
The village of Mochotitlan, in the State of
Guenero, inundated on the night of 18th ult,
by the sudden overlooking to the river Salada-
This sad event caused the ruin of many families
destroying more than half the houses in the vii
lage, and drowning many persons.
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