The New York herald., 1871-12-28
POrfirio Diaz Driven Back Upon La Noyia by
an Overwhelming Force Of Government
Troops Under General AllatOrrc.
F;SCOBEDO LOYAL.
Trevino To Be Disposed Oh
When Diaz Is Done For.
President Juarez Receives Special Powers
from the Mexican Congress

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. 1871.
BY the Mexican journals to the 9th inst, received
here by the last mall, have authentic intelligence
Of the condition Of things IN that republic. the at
tempt OF the two brothers Diaz to overthrow tho ex-
isting government has proved failure. The plan
put forth By General Pornrio Diaz from his rest
dence OF La Noyia, and known, therefore, as
THE PLAN OF LA NOVA,
has fHen dead upon the people Of Mexico, who are
astonished and amazed ut his folly In assuming
that, under leadership, they were disposed not only
to annul the legal and vaIiu elections of President
Juarez hut also to overthrow the constitution OF
1851 which Ia deeply rooted in the affections or the
Mexican people, AZ well by reason OF Its own
merits as Of its having been the watchword Dy
the aid Of w,lch they
DEFEATED THE FRENCH AND DETHRoNED MAXI
MILAN.
The result Is that although Porfrio Diaz had many
partisans IN the Mexican Congress not Que OF the
follows Lin In she attempted revolution. Mean
while. instead OF advancing from La Novia against
the capital as Diaz intended to do and as he must
OF necessity have done In order 10 succeed, he has
been driven back by an overwhelming force OF gov
ernment troops, under the
SUPREME COMMAND JF GENERAL ALGATORHT,
headed by the next in command, General Rocna,
who had already distinguished himself by the de-
feat OF the revolutiOnists and mutneers In the AFFAIR
OF the citadel. According to all appearances the
two brothers of Diaz and their principal adherents.
although they may endeavor TO maintain tnem-
selves the city of Oaxaca, will speedily be de-
feated and either taken prisoners or
COMPELLED TO FLEE IN DISGRACE
to Cuba or the United States. The movement OF
General Trevino continues TO be confined within
narrow limits in the State oil Nuevo Leon, and Will
be suppressed without dlncultv when the govern
ment shall rid itself OF General Diaz.
The insurrectonary movements in sonora Sina.
loa, of which have had such exaggerated
accounts, amount to nothing, being, In fact local
mutinies in the Mazatian y Guaymus, possessing no
political significance whatever and having indeed.
no object except to
PLUMBER THE CUSTOM HOUSES
of those two ports The murDeers have already
re-estabshed at Mazatlan, and reports which have
been coming to via Matamoros representing
Gcneral Escobedo as acting in sympathy with Dlaz
ali Irevino turn out to be false, Escobedo having
TRANQUILITY entered into his new period Of service
as constitutional Governor Of San Luis Potos. IN
fact all these disturbances following on the re-
election OF President JuareL are but the dying eu-
berS OF the pe3tllent
SPIRIT OF MILITARY INSTRUMENTATION
which has long cursed the Mexican Republic the
people OF which seem TO have become at length
heartily SICK OF being at once the tools and the
victims OF every discontinued general who may
choose To violate his military oath and betray ms
puniic duty by pronounCing against the existing
government under which he holus his commission.
THE STATE OF OEiNiON
in the City or Mexico and above ALL the attitude OF
Congress. which py tw0-tlirds vote has bestowed
on President Juarez special powers suited 10 the
emergency bear witness IN the moss signal manner
OF the improved condition OF the Mexican govern
menL