The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-19

VERA CRCz. Jan. S, 1853.
hIorsr,,nts ofae Repol'a ionary Paytts- Condition
oftis R.p,.N,e- Hint is to be Done ?-Sani0 An1
sent for.
This note will come to you by way Of Havana in
the British steamer, which leaves here this morning.
We have letters and papers from the capital AS late
"a the LIST. The Official bulletin Of that date con-
tains only single notice.
AT THE LAST MOMENT
TN GicssuiAL MINoN.
The Lieutenant Colonel Angel Bravo aid TO Ainon has
arrived nj this capital who states that the wound receiv
cd by the General is very slight being no more than
scrat ch on the nose.
Anon tlresdy recovered about mounting his horse
TO continue hostilities.
This shows all the rumors set aaost 10 be false
At the time this was published it had been full
week since Minon had been expected to re-engage
the p,onnnciados at Guadalajara. 1t is evident he
has gained no ground, as the positions he holds are
out of the city-the hospiciO Of San Diego and San
Felipe. Uraga was in person at the convent Of San
Francisco the then object Of attack. That Lieu
tenant Colonel should have been sent at such amo-
ment to announce the purpose Of the General, in
stead Of waiting few hours later for the event seems
to indicate something mor-the want Of money, the
failure of resources, neither Of which the executive
has it in its power to supply.
For the government, everything looks dark. The
people the laboring classes Of every kind. desire
peace; but not so with large number of politicians
and sharpers of every sort who have become poor in
a long season of rcTose. The liberal views which
brought Arista to the chief magistracy with great
unanimty. have. through variety Of legislation
been rejected by the Congress- The cry Of the reyou
tionsts Is for the taking Off Of prohibitions on foreign
goods, and the lowering Of the rate Of duties. For
this all the points Of importance have pronounced
excepting Mexico and Puebla. QueretarO and San
Luis Potos will 60 with .Jalapa and Guanajuato 50
soon as = small military force shall appear to intim
date them Congress refuses to the President the
grant Of extraordinary powers because Of the unc0n
stitutonality OF the act-a reason sound enough to
him, whose pride has been to restrain himself within
the pale of the law but for it stripped bare pre-
text, the Inemberso of which have regarded nothing
40 much as their private interests, and whose
daous legislation has given some ground for the re-
volt One instance OF its utter yienesS never he
derers of Dr. Bestign because of the well known OBJ
jcct OF the President, rapidly to try and punish for
an atrocious act-a gentleman stoned to death by
highwaymen, in the presence OF his wife, for i man.
full and hopeless defence.
1t will occasion no surprise to hear that the recall
OF Santa Anna is contemplated by party that he
has been sent for to retu but it is not Ito be believed
that the younger and more ambitious Uraga
will deliver over his soldiers fortunes, with the sup
port Of the clergy to that old II is something
that the military OF distinction with this cycep
ton have adhered to their OathS, and that the cti
1ens, saving only those Of Vera Cruz. arc true to the
constitution and an established government. The
hiefs are retiring to the capital, with many gentle
men who have been driven from their civil Offices.
II the heads of the factions which unite upon Arista
could unite among themselves, something might yet
be done: but il they do not still all is not lost. Ii
Mnon should carry Guadaajar. the President may
not have occasion for that horse, which, according
to a despatch of Mr.. Letcher. he keeps saddlcd and
brided at his palace for precpitate flight from the
lr.x-,.
from the towns. Pueba can send heavy force upon
Vera Cruz, and few military executions will follow,
and all will he over.
The question whether Mexico shall advance or
now sink forever is to be settled in short time.
There is no middle ground for her: it is either the
triumph of law and constitutional authority, total
anarchy the breaking oil the States into parae 90
yernments. or groups OF governments. 1t is every
where remarked that the President meets the events
with self-possession and the most complete compo-
His message of the lst, on the opening Of the
Chambers. is enclosed to you. &C.
p. S-Tbe public roads were never more infested
with robbers. The mail received by the late steamer
al Vera Cruz from Europe wasinterceptcd, the rider
robbed, ard his horse taken, before his arrival at
Puebla This is the first Interruption the British
press has received since it commenced running,
which dates back more than quarter Of q century.
ADDITIONAL.
ATTEMPT TO NrEDER DR.. GARDINER AND MS FATTY
One Of the Providence papers has an interesting let
rom C3pL. WHO WcDL OUL WIFI III.
ner, to visit the mines claimed by him in Mexico and
for being dspossessed Of which he received from the
Mexican indemnity large sum. since disputed by
the government The letter is dated Villa dc las
Guegas, Nov. 81 and details attempt to rob and
murder the party in one Of the mountain passes.
| Captain Slocm says:-
4 In the deep ravine which divides the third from
the second OF the mountains which lay in our path .
I scene occurred which dsaereeably reminded rue OF
| some former obnoxious acquaintance made by both
VI III This country the spring OF IS1I. We
| riding along very lc-uTcy, resting animals after
/ the fatigue OF passing the mountain which then lay
! in rear, when yoley OF esc0pettc balls came
suddenly among us from the dense chappara on our
right. After unfreRdly sautation, Of course VIC
were not inactive. Instead of waiting another, and
Il perhaps fatal greeting, We put spurs to our
horses and rushed ahead, at the same time drawing
our reyolyers. The grIeras, for such they proved
to be ten or twelve in number, thinking would es-
cape them. did not stop TO reload, but rushed out
their horses and gave chase We went atfu speed some
hundred yards. when we suddenly tarned upon them
and commenced running fire. Their yolley killed
two OF our three servants and all three OF mules
but fortunately did not hit Abbott, Dr. Gardiner.
/ myself. We took them by surprise and ont of the
eighteen shots threw ut them, six told with fatal
effect, and the balance, thinking, undoubtedly, from
the quantity of lead sent, that there OF
us left Us as unceremoni0usy their horses could
! carry them. Our remaining servant with his LassO
caught -four Of the horses whose saddles we emptied
and pressed them into our service, thus gaining four
! me HoiceS aud sauules lpI the pNs " our ulrec
| mules"
| The writer, II appears from his letter. has asccr-
tanned to his satisfaction. that the silver mines
claimed by Dr. Gardiner and tor being dispossessed Of
which he received an indemnity out OF the three and
a quarter millions appropriated by Congress under
the treaty Of Guadalupe lIldago, actually exist He
says the first is within rife shot d the village
whence his letter is dated and two Others within
1 two days ride. Captain Slocum thinks DR.. Gardiner
has been hardly used and says that the Mexican gov
eminent have assisted in obtaining evidence to his
disadvantage placing at the same time, obstacles in
| DIR. GARDENERS path, deprying him Of the right to
examine into the public records which show the title
aud extent u his property, and even ordering him
and his friends away, if they came again for like
purpose
\ RfrRaL OF .11lE LlQuoR Law N M,ssACnr.
sIrrs-Thc following order was offered in the Ilouss
of Representatives. on the 18th inst, by Mr.. Brewer
I 81 Cambridge
+ Ordered That The Committee on the Judiciary b.
inafrucird ~ inouirp into tho xpedcucy of rcpcgling