The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-16
From Mexico,

brief outline of the following intelligence has
already been received by telegraph, but the details
are ola highly interesting nature:
From the NetO Orleans Picayune, Februarys.
LATER FROM THE Rio GRANDE.-We received
yesterday the Brownsville Flag of the 3lst ultmo
containing an account of a successful pronuncia-
mento at Matamoros, and other interesting intel
igence from Northern Mexico.
1t appears that 90 the 2Sth, while nearly all the
citizens OF Matamoros were engaged in celebrat-
ing the funeral obsequies of Rufus Rodriguez, a
portion of the military, who had secretly decided
TO join the revolution and support the Jalisco plan,
awaited themselves OF the opportunity to carry their
project into effect Accordingly, they had parties
of men secretly posted at strong points in the CITY,
and succeeded at once in combining General Ava
los, the commandant, to the gle square in which
his quarters were situated. He retained all the
artillery and the majority of his troops, but the in
surgent5, under Colonel Quintona, hemmed him
IN, and after several hours of sharp firing about IL
O'Clock at night, parley was sounded, and there
was cessation of hostilities.
On Saturday and Sunday the parties were ne
gotiating, and it was finally arranged that Avaos
was TO resign the command at Matamoros to Col
onel Basave, who to hold il until the arrival of
Colonel Cruz from Camargo, the latter to have the
command on the frontier.
AVOIDS, the Flag learns to have the privi-
lege of leaving the city with his and an escort
OF one hundred men.
1t appears that the loss in killed and wounded
was inconsiderable. The women and children fled
to Brownsville for safety, many of them wholly
unprOVldeo Tor Gays su5tenance, but they were
we'll cared for by the citizens of Brownsville.
Matanoros was the only point in the State of
Tamaupas that held out for the general govern.
ment That city having successfully pronounced,
the entire State has adopted the Jalisco plan.
The Flag says the cities OF Monterey nd Satil-
to have also pronounced for the popular plan 30
That the entire frontier is now in the hands of the
insurgents.
The report of the assassination of Governor
Reyes of San Luis Potosi, which we published
some days since, is confirmed. 1t is said he was
publicly assassinated in the streets of the capital
by six men in disguise.
The Flag of the 3lst mentions current rumor
that Don Ramon Prieto, Provisional Governor of
Tamaupas, had been killed in Victoria.
Col. Cruz published at Camar go, on the 22d of
January, proclamation stating that Matamoros
being the only city in the State which had not ad-
hered to the plan of Guadaajara, in virtue of
authority in him vested by the third article of the
plan OF Fresnes ne declared the port of Matamoros
closed TO foreign commerce from the 25th ultimo,
and that all goods imported there would be conis-
Gated
The successful pronunciamento at Matamoros
probably rescinds that order.
Another proclamation of Col Cruz, of the same
date, declares all corporations or individuals who
shall oppose the plan of Guadalajara to be enemies
of the independence and unity of the republic,
and that their goods and properties be confiscated
to the State. He gives to the men under the COM
nand of Avalos four days, and to those under Car
vaJal twenty days to surrender. No mention is
made in his proclamation of the chiefs.