Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-16

An Organised Effort being Made to
Bring About q Revelation.

DRAn4 ABOUT q Revolution
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
MARACAYBO, Venezuela, June IS 1894
Those who sustained the cause Of Andueza
Palacio. villegas. Puldo. Urdoneta. Men
doza, Monagns. Casanas. Saria and Pepper
against congress. the supreme court. the
n asses and Crespo during the last civil war.
are apparently still busy plotting against
the public peace. Their latest move Is to
ally themselves with the Colombian radicals
of Barranquilla dynamite plot notoriety.
and their plan to spring a revolution, stimuli
taneously. in the Venezuelan states of Los
Andes, Zulia, Zamora and Falcon. and in
the frontier departments of Colombia. A
mixed junta has been formed in Curacao to
direct operations, and a printing Office set
up there; secret" circulars are being dis
velopes. to persons in sympathy with the
clique in Colombia and Venezuela.
In those mailed to Colombians, President
Nunez and the government of Vice Prcsi-
dent Caro- are denounced as having made an
unrighteous deal with the present govern
ment of Venezuela. and signed treaty with
CrespOs plenipotentiary at Bogota receding
to the Caracas government a great part or
the venezuelan territory claimed by Colom-
bia. and decided by arbitration at Madrid,
two years ago, to belong to the BoSota gov
eminent. On the other hand, the little yell
low slips printed for circulation amongst
EeneZuelans denounce the Madrid award as
unjust, and claims that the great mass Of
Colombian liberals, ever generous In spirit
toward the sister republic which gave birth
to Bolivar, the hberator, are unwilling that
she should be dismembered-even to their
own advantage. Nenezueians are urged
therefore to assist the Colombian liberals to
get into power, and promised that once Nj
neg and Caro- fall a new government at b.
gotta will voluntarily cede the territory back
to Venezuela! Level de Coda, Andueza' 8
representative has just completed a tour OF
Colombia. and. upon his return from Bar
ranquilla and Panama, took part, with the
Colombian leaders, Vargas-ViIa, Generals
tuiz, Rosas and Perez-Triana, in organizing
In cooperation with Crespo's enemies in
exile at Caracas the new Junia.
Considerable munitions of war have been
brought here during the last three mon tbs
and struggled hence across the frontier, via
Cucuta or Tachiva. to the discon tented in
Colombia; and a few weeks ago it was
openly claimed in the club here that
Crespo's general in command of the from
tier was In sympathy with the Curacao
plotters. and secretly furthering their plans
And there may have been some basis for
the charge: but the sad general Is no
longer In command on the border. Crespo
evidently heard of the reports against him
and the minister Of war has relieved him,
naming to fill the post Gen. Espiritu Santo
Morales. Morales is a godo or conservative.
and nowise In sympathy with either Co
lombian or Venezuelan liberals.
A Russian Engineer. NJ. Cristobal Daco-
witch. who lately discovered petroleum in
the southern districts of this state (Zuja)
has gone to Caracas to formally apply to
the federal government for concessions COW
ering the same. Specimens of the crude
product. which he carried with him, having
been analysed at the capital show: Ben
zine. 10 per cent; petroleum, as per cent;
lubricating OIL 81 per cent: asbestos, : per
cent The principal well opened by HIM,
near the Tara river, produces 1000 gallons
per day
Martin Tovar. the noted Venezuelan ar
list now in Paris. is at work upon 2 new
I\picture to depict THE Battle of Ayacucho' -
which decided the fate of five South Anieri-
can republics.
The minister of public works has signed
with Count Charles Condo. the representa-
tive of a French syndicate a contract for
the construction OF new line Of railway,
intended to give Caracas a new outlet to
the sea, In competition with the British rail-
| road to La Guayra- The road the French
| are to build will run to Carrero and Hi
guerrote Bay, a magnificent ha-bor. less
| than hundred miles east of La Guayra.
concession has also been era 1tei to a
| Franco-Belgian syndicate for the censtruc-
| ton of a railway to connect Puerto Cabello
| with Araure.
Gen. Riera, newly appointed chief of the
federal troops garrisoned in the capital of
| Falcon, telegraphs that all signs of insu--
rectton have been stamped out in that state.
new marine dock Is being constructed
at Puerto Cabelo, under direction of the
| minister Of war and navy. In future Vebe-
Zuelan warships will be repaired there in
| stead of being sent to Martinique Trinidad
| or the United States.
A combined effort is being made by mu-
nicipal. state and federal authorities to close
all the gambling houses in the republic of
| Colombia.
Gen. Crespo. president of the republic of
| Colombia, has been made supreme comman-
der of Venezuelan Masonry.