The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-01
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS.

From the New Orleans Picayune May Is.
By the arrival of the steamship Orizaba, Captain
Forbes, we have received files OF papers from the
city of Mexico to the 18th and Vera Cruz to the
2lst insts.
General Santa Anna arrived on the evening of the
l4th inst. at San Augustin, and made triumphal
entry into the capital on the 10th, from the cam
paign Of the south as the Mexican journals. gran
doquenty style his march against Alvarez, and
was received with every demonstration of joy, such
as Nominations, bull fights, fireworks, &C.. The
ders for all these festivities given by the Gov
ernor OF the city of Mexico, by which the people
were officially commanded to enjoy themselves
during the space Of three days.
The city Of Pueba had also joined in these re-
ocings and the fluctuations the happy return Of
his Serene Hghness were pouring in from all quar-
ters. The military commandant of Vera Cruz,
which city also rejoiced nightly, says that the
President had returned, after triumphant cam
pagn, in which he marched from victory to victory,
&c, DC. OF course all the journals sing 10 the same
tune and it Is impossible to gather anything from
them in relation to the real results Of the campaign
A conspiracy was detected in che fort of San
Juan d'Ulloa, headed by two sergeants, who got mp
pronunciamiento on their own account, to facii-
tate the fight OF Gen. Avalos, WHO'S confined there.
The plot having been discovered, Manuel Coma
lez one OF the sergeants, was condemned to death
by n court martial and shot on the 18th.
Three criminals, who had been condemned to
DEATH and who were to have been executed on the
l4.h were pardoned as token of gratitude for the
happy return Of the President from the Southern
campaign
On the 10Th, there was rumor OF minist ,rial
crisis in Mexico, which appeared 20 have no found
alton whatever beyond the wishes Of its propa-
gators.
The Mexican steamer of war Iturbide arrived at
Vera Cruz from New Orleans on the llth instant,
having made the voyage in eighty hours. She
took out the first information of the passage OF the
Gadsdon treaty.
| The earthquake on the 9Th instant, 10 which We
alluded in our last summary of news from Mexico,
was also felt slightly at Jalpa. The town Of
Oaaca suffered most several edices being badly
| injured.
The Trail dUnion has been fined s4O0 and the
numbers of that paper of the 18th seized, Cor pub
fishing an item OF Mexican news dspleassg TO the
| government
Mime. Sontag's opera troupe continued TO draw
immense houses in Mexico, and the performances
met with the greatest success,
Correspondence Of the New Orleans Delta.
VERA Cruz, May 81, 1854.
II. 8. ii. made his grandc sntrfe on the 10th, will
ell fhe pomp and circumstance BETTING moment
Gus an occasion. The papers are full of the mos
elaborate description Of the august and imposing
ceYemonals attending the return OF such hero
from such exploits % the world never SAW before
and in good sooth IL never has OF coursc there ha
leen the usual amount OF gunfiring bell-ringing
Ie.Deum singing letting or of rockets fixing o
sauibs, &C.. mingled with bombastie Fluctuations o
the dignitaries, and an occasional faint rivn from
tho '7tyos-oi pc''oi, or great u9washed Of Mexico