The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-21


From the New Orleans Picsyu.s August IL
BY the brig Josefna Captain Pccatsra, nom Vera
Cux received dates from the city o. meuce -
tho 3ist ult, and from Vera Cruz the 4th inst.
The TIaa Unon, Of the 3lst July refers 70 what
CALI an important step taken IN tns a%ss
the CONSTITUTIONAL (Which we have not receved) In re
gard adjudication Of the contract for building
| a ROAD the Isthmus.
The government II seems to receive new proposals
for tho contract but II has fixed day, namely the 10th
of August the latest for the sending In of offers after
that day will be received considered All prop0-
stions already made to the Minister are considered
void, and must be made anew and every proposition
must be sent under seal and kept secret The
m.nt the privilege, up to the signing of the
contract of treating the subject Of the terms pro-
posed with the understanding that the bidder shall mot
be subject to any additional payment beyond what was
stipulated The proposals enlsrge diminish the
basis proposed with CORRESPONDING change Of the prices
able the length Of the term of the privilege The
contracts to be subject to the subsequent approval OF
Congress
According to this project the bids will be opened In
the city OF Mexico day and all those who have not
petition.
The paper Of the 2Sth contains long expositscn
OF very remarkable which occurred at orizaba,
which il of great interest all orega residents
Mexico private citizen named Lafont, living in ORR
zaba contracted marriage according 70 the Las Of his
own country before the French Consul in Vera Cruz
which offence he has been arrested tried ana entenoed
to four years imprisonment The French Minister has
made strong representations and demanded the liberation
Of Lafont, but has yet been unable TO obtain it.
Another revolution broke In Mazatan ON the 1h
ult From the accounts given in toe Stgo XIX II ap-
pears that Capt Pedro Valdez of the artillery ct the
Of body of troops composed partly Of regular soldiers
national guards and the people attacked the troops sf
Culisoan who sustained the Governor Of Snaoa in the
illegal contributions which he had exaoed from the
chants OF MazatlaD and after two hours fighting the
yer ed leaving the Governor prisoner in the hands of
the insurgents He released the following day how
commeice and left Mazatlan the same afternoon
On arriving at Quelte, the 18th he Issued procla-
nation closing the port Of sazatan In this document
he charges the foreigners residing in Mazstap with being
the sole movers and nstgatcrs in this rebellion against
the constitute authorities and asserts that il got up
to enable the merchants bring in their goods free Of
duty and deraud the national treasury Strange to
fight
On the 30th ut the government received news by ex
traordina1y express that 74onmcianenio had been
mace in Guadalaara. Nothing said of the plan or
people with about 200 Of the National Guard had seized
upon the government The instruction said 20 be
headed by man named Davilla. chief of the puros
The movement OF Reboledo in the State OF Vera Cruz
has assumed an Importance which did expect at
our last advices On entering Cordova he issued proca
nation inviting the people to Join him and put down the
ooious aicabdids ian onerous inland tax and promising
not to lay down his until he had succeeded in his
patriotic desires One report stated that he had dated
the Sd regiment of the line killing the colonel aud eleven
other officers and that the soldiers Of the regiment had
joined him This was not believed however and lacks
confirmation His force is varously estimated at from
three hundred to thousand Another report from
Vera Cruz stated that he had submitted but the Trait d.
he and the insurgents with him had all submitted and
published their fidelity to the constitution The Union
Inconsistent
tnued position. as what he had demanded was the mod-
fcaton of the law regarding the acaaas the abolition Of
the law respecting the national guard and the separation
Of the district Of 0r2aba from the State Of Vera Cruz So
far from having disarmed Rebosdo he was the last
dates near Jaapa and going upon Coalepa whore has
numerous partisans. He had stopped the last British
courier going from Vera Cruz to the city Of Mexico but
dismissed him after detention of hour aud half
They had fears in Mexico for the safety the conduca
which left there for Vera Cruz with $500 coo
The Sgo 1t rumored in the city Of Mexico that
revolution had been proclaimed in Tampico and that
the insurgents demanded q reform in the tariff The
corps OF artillery which in Quaretaro marched for
Tampco 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
get their arrears of pay
The Sigio Of the 10th ul says that band of two hun
dred Mexcans and Americans at the Arroyo de Do
ores the rgh bank Of the Rio Bravo preparing to in
wade the State Of New Leon The Governor Of tho State
had taken all the necessary precautions to repe the
vaders and having appealed TO Gen Jauregui that ON
Ger had answered that although the officers 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 Perdigon Garay who the Sigio says has been 50
nquitousy prosecuted by the government had fed from
his prison at Braves it is thought with the intention Of
leaving the republic
Mr.. Rice, American Consul at Acapulco, was in the city
of Mexico
The Indians committing their usual depredations