The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-25


ny May the response be- the whistle Of our balls and
may from all mountains and deles resound the bat
tie cry:-Tird la Libertdd. viva la Independencid!
Death to the real traitors. JUAN ALVAREZ.
IMPORTANT FROM NEW GRANADA.
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Threatened NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mt Car
thagena-Gen. Mosquera at Baranquilla.
Our advices from Bogota are to the 4th Santa
Martha to the 5th and Carthagena to the sth inst.
They are important.
From the Aspnwan Courier May Ill
CARTHAGENA, May s, 1854
With much regret and sad foreboding have to
inform you that the dogs of war (the worst of wars
and civil wary, are let loose among US.
"A revolution broke forth in Bogota about the mid
die Of last month, and the adjacent country in fact
most of the interior, is in blaze of excitement,
and anarchy and the tyranny OF dictatorism are
struggling together.
Our accounts are so conflicting, and at the same
time SO meagre, that it is impossible to advise you
with any certainty as to movements in the interior.
We know that General Meo has pronounced him
self dictator at the capital
Gen. Herrera, and most of the national Congress
had fed, and had not, at the last advices, accom-
plished reunion.
General Mosquera is in Baranqula, with force.
Here, in Carthagena, all is confusion worst con-
Of society, and nothing but weakness and foolish
clustering having yet been made manifest.
Gen. Melo. who has, according to the above made
himself dictator, is fighting man, and SO long as he
can muster force, wherever there is resistance,
he will endeavor to put it down. General Mosquera
will be the most formidable opponent he will meet
The war cry Of the former party, will be "up with
the dictator, and down with the constitutional that
of the latter "Gen. Mosquera and the constitution"
Though there has been considerable disturbance
in Carthagena, 1t is probable that, ere this, the
Governor and the Conservatives of Carthagena
have given adherence to General Mosquera. As he
has offered his services to the citizens in support of
the new constitution, and as the negroes, who were
but recently emancipated, have an idea that the
tendency of the dictatorship will be to re-enslave
them, he will be enabled to advance towards the
capital with considerable force. Every indication
OF the present seems to promise long contest We
are for the liberal constitution. Who's against us
On with the ball.
The following is the translation of an official bull
letin published by the Governor of the province of
Santa Martha, on the 5th inst =
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Governor of the province has received the
following communication
REPUBLIC OF New GRANADA,
OFFICE OF THE Sec. OF SrATE-SEc. lsr.,
BoGoTA, April 1s, 1854.
TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF SANTA
MARTHA.
On the night of the 10th instant disgraceful and
unjustifable outbreak took place in this capital,
which has completely destroyed constitutional or
Jose Maria Melo had placed himself, and to which
body of the National Guard had united itself,
formed an organization, by proclaiming the said
Gen. Melo as supreme chief of the Republic. Sew
eral arrests were made, and proclaimed throughout
the city. The citizen President of the Republic
and his Secretaries were arrested the first in the
government house, and the Others in the city garri
son.. 1t was demanded of the citizen General Oban-
do that he should accept the supreme command of
the dictatorship and he refused to destroy his
stitutional titlee. To-day they have organized
Provsionary government; the liberty OF the press
has been restricted, and other similar measures
in hrnf fha facf
In these critical circumstances the citizen vice.
president Of the republic has been placed in exer
else OF the executive power, and he has entrusted
me with the duty Of filing the office of Secretary of
State as well as also those of the other government
secretaries temporarily, until the kad other secre
tary shall be named. The Congress also has been
called to re-commence its sessions in Socorro the
10Th day OF May, upon which the Senators and Rep
resentatves have agreed, some of them having
gone in that direction.
Fully acquainted with these events, you will ap-
preciate in the first place the great evils of the pre-
sent state Of things, and in the second place the Ell
forts that every patriot New Granadian has to make,
and especially those that find themselves invested
with legal authority, in order to save the principle of
legitimacy, and with it the republic. In conse-
quence, the Executive fully authorizes you by dele
eating to you all the constitutional and legal facul
ties for taking whatever measures your patriotism,
and the urgency of the case may suggest to the end
that this province shall be preserved from the
lutionary contagion; to prevent the rebel factions
from obtaining resources of any kind in it; and,
finally, for resisting them in every practicable
mode.
Place the public means in safety, ensure the arma
ment and amunition send the cattle and the horses
oGt of the way call the citizens to arms and do not
neglect any means for the re-establishment OF the
legitimate government.
Several officers of high grade have already left
The capital in different directions fully authorised to
organize forces to come upon it, and within sh ,rt
time the constitutional government will have sur
plus Of means and resources for reestablishing legal
order, among which il counts upon those that you
will without doubt furnish it, BY sending in the
safest manner the public funds that cannot be of
urgent necessity in the province or the sum of the
loans you shall raise, under the guaranty of the
government, or by sending troops in good order to
the command of the chiefs in its confidence. am
your obedient servant. DOMINGO A.MALDosADo.
n B.--Re pleased to send this note to the Gov
ernors of Ville-Dupar and Rohacho, for the danger
of existing circumstances does not admit that they
should he addressed individually. MALDoSADo.
In addition to the above, the following adyices
have been received by private etters:-
FL Sr. Pedro Martin Consuega, having been
named Governor of Bogota by the usurping govern
ment, called on the 18th of April for meeting of
the fathers of families at p. NJ. on the same day,
and published proclamation announcing that the
people and the army had proclaimed Jose Maria
Obando, the President of the Republic Supreme
Chief OF the nation. The few fathers of families
that attended the meeting there agreed to send
committee, composed of five persons, to solicit of
the President General Obando that he would be-
come member of the provisional government, who
replied on the following day, refusing them. The
same day, the 18th, protest of DIR. Lleras, with
letter from him addressed TO General Obando, who
made the following repy:-
TrurSD LrxRAs-I know my duty you know that |
will disgrace my by submitting my Just pre-
cedents at the feet Of the written law am prisoner
and together with the Vice President the secre
taries, and the Procurador. General Hence will 20 to
fulfil the destiny mari ed out for honorable man In
vain derore the Ills OF country, and the dshonor Of