The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-06-14
Our Acapulco Correspondence.

AcprIco, Nay II, lsb7
The Chizapa Prm,uncidmiau1t-Th Ehuanapsc Rolse--
xcalcan Pacific coal Company.
All The items Of information which can pick up, worthy
OF note rather old aud may perhaps have reached
tho HERALD BY other channels In case they have not,
however, subscribe the following
good deal Of interest and anxiety manifested hero
with regard 70 the result Of tho ChAps
In you have not received full of Already
will give you q brief description Of its origin and
progress appears that in the latter end Of April
when the time arrived at which all the authorities Of
this State required 10 swear 10 the constitution,
some cursses priests who resided In the vicinity
OF Chiapa, and who exercise great influence over
large number Of Indian villages In that vicinity
refused 10 take The OATH and In consequence
asS ..9. = 1 ;sS ssp Of aS Slate while
villages assembled !hen:cfv3 tosethe. and, headed by
government authorities with their Vengeance unless tbs
priests released AT this luncure the priests wero
sent to Acapulco for grcaer safety and Colonel Navarro
the commandant OF the district, with 40 hundred
soldiers, marched in the direction OF the Indian
villages Re naming here some little tune, and nnd
Ing everything quiet the Coone vii his troops, returned
TO ChilaTa, aud entering the mot by some
two thousand Indians under the command Juan Anto-
MO, who had come TO carry INTO execution their threats
An engagement took place nj between The Indians
and the troops under Col navarro the former however
having such majority the regular troops, being
all well armed, soon put end W the combat, having
killed oil the officers, and numbered thirty Of the
two hundred regular troops They sec 1red and pa,
10 death the Project Of the district several other au.
horites who had taken part In sending OF their priests
Gen. Alvarez receiving OF the OF affairs,
marched AT with few men, increasing their number
as he went along, TO the Of the disaster He Is
now In Txts, at the head OF large number OF men, the
villages In the neighborhood having voluntarily oontrbut
cd largely 70 his force Juan Antenio with hts Indians,
In possession Of ChiApa still, hu, last shortly surrender
10 Alvarez.
Ills generally supposed that the matter will be ,ermi.
mated speedily and without any difficulty, by Alvarez,
although the Indians muster something Ike thou
Sand armed men, necessary, and give the oil General
great deal Of trouble.
There good deal OF talk About the Tehuantepec road
here Just now Prom the reports received by a Danish
clipper ship, which len san Francisco with passengers for
Tehuantepec and put In here time ago Tor wsier and
supplies, tho landing a The Pacific minus Of the road Ia
very bad indeed. The captain reports loss Of The
schooner MARI Taylor while laying the port of veuua
and also represents that his vessel the greatest
danger gale sprung up very suddenly while he was
lying there, and blew violently that he lost his anchors
and chain, and with difficulty got sea- being obliged TO
leave some passengers and almost all his water and pro-
v1ions ashore.
The passengers he broush, from San Francisco intended
70 cstabsh themseve Al Tcbuantepcc, but became dis
hcarsened II the prospects there, and now on their
way 70 this port by land.
The Mexican Pacific Goal Comrany's exploring party
reached hero yesterday by the road from Zacana
hey have spent several months examining Of
neral wealth