The New York herald., 1862-03-08
Our Caracas correspondence.
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Difficulty Of Arricino at True Statement Of Agairs-e
Propects Of the Country Goomicr han Ecer-The Pdrtie'
70 The Present Srugge-Place AMI Po,cer the Governing
Novcs--Msery Of the Repabic-Cltircns FJrced INTO the
Arp,y-D;Gcuuies Of Ccmmurcation-Prospcct Of
Bloody Struggle, &C., de-, dc. ~
In the present state Of ahrs II Is not little daagerou
to write the TRUTH for the HERALD although publish
ed than two thousand miles from this blessed land
Of revolutions counter revolutions and leadore But
the egesious msstatements, or, properly speaking, will
fu fasehoods that from tims 10 time appear In American
papers, determine to give you insight 70 the
actual state Of things and keep you informed Of events
as they may occur hereafter.
Al period during the thres years that this bloQdy
revolution has been progress has there boon goomcr
prospect than at present. The return Of Monagas TO
power is not improbable. In few short months two
legally elected constitutional Prcsidents--Tovar and
Gual-both Of undoubtcd integrity, virtue, ability
and patriotism have been ovsrthrown and the degnado
Dr. Quntsro, exiled Still tho revolution continues on
with increased forocity. Two factions are now striving
for suprcmacy-Falcon- -Nionagas and Rojas Paez The
struggle is simply for power and the rich harvest
yields its possessor. More than forty thousand lives
have already bosn SACRIFICED towns reduced to ashes
most Of tho rich and productive coffee cocoa and sugar
estates abandoned by their owners, who have taken
refuge In this city in garrisoned towns commercs
utterly destroyed; exhausted treasury population
duced 70 the verge OF oegRory mposts citizens
OF all ages and conditions from fifteen seventy forced
TO take arms not TO ropc foreign enemy but destroy
each other persons OF the highest (Gomez
Uzaris, Iorada Gonzalcs) immured for months In the
horrible Ioccias OF LagIayra, without charge
bong made against them. Cities, towns and villages
barricaded and turned into ortncatos and the whole
country forming vast battle ed which the contend
ing parties butcher zach other with inconceivabls fc
rocity, glorying--wth honorable cxception--n such
leaders Rivas Sandoval Guermo Perez &C., on one
side, and Noga, Chingo. Uvo on the other. In a re.
cent proclomdr published n the Iadpendiene tho Rjas
Paez organ, rcad:'The vandal hordcs OF this pro-
vinco are Signalling themselves more than ever by
atrocious deeds OF the mcst iuconcevabls barbarty,
amusing themselves by assassinatng innocont citizens
burning and destroying property Of all knds.r Again.
"Tle reassunes its primitive character OF ferocty
The fcdcrals friends Of principal and who fegn to be
friends Of the people, commence aDow their enterprise
with piIage, re and assassination. On the farthsst
plains Of Coyedos and hero, In sight Of tho capital
repeated the The federation Is in full
ercise and dovcopemcnt."
in truth, this city, the capital OF the republic that
has fer months bcel in n state Of slegc All tho
roads, with tbs exception Of that OF Tagusyra occupied
by tho fcdcas requiring parties Of from threc hundred
10 hundred men 10 convoy prov sios 10 tho adjacent
and these conveys have several occasions boon
put TO flight with loss Of all part Of their charge
IL is dincut 10 imagine any favorable terminstion 10
this ehaoS Of barbaFsm spd misruls. The eyefthr9w