The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-21
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La En- kOM MEXICO.
by the arrival at New Orleans of IN. b,,~
Josefina, Captain Poca,era, from Yer, cns
the ficay yune has dates from the ci,v ofM.,;.
TO the 3lst ultimo. and Vera Cruz m IN. a,h
instant. 1'A
g., ne 1raa q oason Of the 3lst of july. re-
,tas ,s 70 what 1t calls an important step taken in
.'er uantePec question. Ii refers 10 the
offciai documents published in m. Cons,;,,,.
oonai, (which We have not received 4 in reg.1d
70 nhe adjudication Of the new contract for
I'm road across the Isihmus.
e Government, II seems, is TO receive new
tay tposais ,or tne contract, nut it has 6xed a
shs w VIE the 10Th OF August, as the latest for
vii, haolng ~ IN OF ofers-afier that day. none
t;on. esWed or considered. All proposi.
cred "a So,a made to the Minister are consid-
sns., as VOID, and must be made anew And
sseis proposition must be sen, nnas. -. anJ anJ
neP. secret. The Goyernmsn, ".e Seai ano
pINnege up to the signing q, N. ,s. ."1
.reaung on the subject Of the term, 'onmae. oo o.
",u ane UNDERSTANDING that the b;dds, 49,,
no. oe SUBJECT TO any additional paymsr, sna,1 ha
yonu mna. was stipulated. The pronos.I.
with corresponding change of ,hp'oposea, ,ha
payable, or the length Of the term Of ,bs p'ees o
vilege. The contracts to be subiect To Nh.
subsequent approval Of Congress. '
According to this project the bids will he
opened in the city of Mexico TO-DAY. and ali
those who have not sent in their sealed nno.
posals, are shut out from the competition.
The same paper of the 2Sth contains long
exposition OF very remarkable case, which
occurred at Orizaba, which is of great interest
to all foreign born residents in Mexico. nr;-
vate citizen named Lafont, living in Orizaba.
contracted marriage according TO the laws ri
his own country, before the French Consul
IN Vera Cruz, for which offence he has been
arrested, tried, and sentenced to four years'
imprisonment. The French Minister has made
strong representations, and demcuded the IL
beratlon of Lafont. but has yet been unable 10
obtain il.
Another revolution broke out in Mazatlan
on the llsh ult. From the accounts given ia
the Sigto XJX., it appears that Capt. Pedro
valdez, OF the artillery, at the head of body
OF troops, composed partly regular soldiers,
national guards and the people, attacked the
troops OF Cuiiacan, who sustained the Cover.
ner OF Sinaloa in the illegal contributions
which he had exacted from the merchants of
Mazatian, and after two hours fighting the lat.
ter fled, leaving the Governor prisoner in the
hands OF the insurgents. He was released the
following day, however, after having dis.
gorged the fine imposed by him upon com.
meIce, and LETT Mazatlan the same afternoon.
On arriving at Quelite, on the 10Th, he is.
| sued proclamation closing the port of Ma.
| zatlan. In this document he charges the
| foreigners residing in Mazatlan with being the
sole movers and insligators in this rebellion
against the constituted authorities, and asserts
that II was got up to enable The merchants IN
bring IN their goods Tree nf duty, and so de.
fraud the national treasury. Strange TO saw
there were several persons killed and wounded
IN the fight.
On the Both ult., the Government received
news by extraordinary express that pronun>
cIamento had been made in Guadalajara.-'
Nothing was said of the plan or object of the
insurgents. All that is known is that the
people with about2O0 Of the National Guard
had seized upon the Government. The in
surrectiOn is said to be headed by man
named Davila, chief Of the Puros.
The movement of Rebolledo, in the State of
Vera Cruz, has assumed an importance which
we did not expect al our last advicss. On en-.
tering Cordova he issued proclamation, in
viiing the people to join him and put down the
Odious Alcabalas, Ian onsrous inland tar J and
promising not to lay down his arms until be
had succeeded in his patriotic desires. One
report stated that he had defeated the Sd regi.
ment of the line, killing the Colonel and eleven
other officers, and that the soldiers of the reg
iment had joined him, This was moi believed.
however, and lacks confirmation. His force
is variousIy estimated at from three hundred to
asthousand men. Another report from Vera
Cruz stated that he had ssubmiIted, but the
Trait d. Union had no confidence in the ru.
NOR. II was said that he and the insurgents
with him had all submitted and published their
fidelity to the constitution.
The Union thnks this promise not at all in
consistent with his continued position, as what
he had demanded was the modification of the
law regarding the aicabalas, the abolition of
the law respecting the national guard, and sepa-
ration Of the district Of Orizaba from the Slate u
of Vera Cruz. So far from having disarmed
Reboledo, he was, al the last dates, near Ja-
lapa, and going upon Coalepa, where ne has
numerous partisans. He had stopped the last
British courier going from Vera Cruz to the
city of Mexico, but dismissed him after de-
tention of an hour and hall. They had fears
in Mexico for the safety oil the conducta which
left there for Vera Cruz with $s00O0O.
The Sigl0 says it was rumored in The city Of
Mexico that a revolution had been proclaimed
in Tampico. and that the insurgents demanded
reform in the tariff. The corps of artillery
which was in Queretaro marched for Tampico
on the 18th inst, taking four pieces Of artillery.
Several retired officers had died OF hunger in
Durango, and others were living upon charity,
not being able to get their arrears of pay.
The SigiO of the 10th ult., says that band
of 200 Mexicans and AmeIi- ans were at the
Arroyo de Dolores, on the right bank OF the Rio
Bravo, preparing to invade the State OF New
Leon. The Governor of the State had taken
all The necessary precautions 10 repei the In
wade rs; and having appealed to Gen. Jaure.
gui, that officer had answered that although
the officers and soldiers then in Monterey were
suffering extreme misery, he would give thirty
soldiers to unite with the National Guard, and
march himself at their head.
Gen. Perdgon Garay, who. the Siglo says,
has been so iniquitously persec uted by the Co.
verument, had fled from his prison at Brayos,
il is thought with the intention Of leaving the
Republic.
SHOCKING OcCURREsCE.-A frightful affair
took place in the vicinity OF this city last Nom
day evening, by which woman named Hen
ley was killed by the discharge of gun in
the hands of her husband Ii appears that
she had herself loaded the gun ~ iih buck shot,
and Henley states that they were scuffling for
its possession, when it went off, killing her in.
stantly. She was buried without any further