The North Carolina Standard

CIVIL WAR IN MEXICO.

The embers of strife have at last burst into an open flame in Mexico, and there is no telling when or where it will cease. For the moment the liberal party is discomfited. We hope better fortune awaits their future struggles.

LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.

By an arrival from Vera Cruz at N. Y., files of the Diario del Gobierno of Mexico to the 30th July inclusively are received.

As we predicted, domestic commotions have begun and are now agitating that republic. The liberal party of federalists (i. e. those opposed to centralism) are making rapid advances: they have made a bold attempt to abolish the present order of things and restore the government to its former features. But whether their force was insufficient to obtain the success they calculated upon, or whether the government anticipated their designs and frustrated them by timely organizations we cannot tell; however, they were completely routed at Etla in the engagement which took place between 900 government troops under the command of General Canalizo, and 600 federalists commanded by Col. Miguel Acevedo.

From Canalizo an official dispatch or bulletin appears in the Diario of the 24th, which states that the federal party had 100 men killed, 228 taken prisoners; among the latter is Acevedo chief of the revolutionists, Andreas Castineda brevet commandant of the battalion, at Ramirez, commanding the company of Tacachi and a foreigner named Lapilladi captain of artillery. The remainder of their force were entirely routed. The loss on the part of the government were 3 killed and 6 wounded.

The day succeeding this engagement, Acevedo, Castineda, Ramirez, and Lapilladi were shot: a council of war had been held upon the other officers but the result has not yet transpired.

The commandant of artillery of the federal troops succeeded in making his escape from Etla and has arrived in this city.

He informs us, that the greatest agitation prevails in the interior of Mexico occasioned by the revolutionary movement of Oaxaca -- disturbances are hourly anticipated.

The official accounts from the States, on the other hand directed to the general government and published in the Diario, declare most directly that the greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout.

The Mexican Fleet, consisting of the brig Fama and the schooner Bravo, were at Vera Cruz on the 9th. They were preparing to make a cruise.

A considerable number of criminals have been condemned and executed in Mexico during the month of July last. Among them we see the name of a certain Jose Maria Ortega, a grenadier of the battalion of Minilla, charged with homicide upon the person of a corporal belonging to the same battalion.

By a decree of the general government published in the official paper of 17th July, an annual contribution of 3 upon every thousand dollars worth of property has been declared upon all real estates.

Voluntary donations continue to be made throughout all the states of Mexico to assist the government to meet the exigencies growing out of the war in Texas. We have made a calculation approximating to the actual amount of subscribers, and find ten thousand signatures, but the total sum subscribed is not more than from five to six hundred dollars. We feel not the slightest astonishment that no more has been raised as the highest donations are not above one dollar, and the greatest number average less than one bit (12 1/2 cts.).

When we consider what little patriotism is exhibited here by the Mexicans in a cause which they denominate a national one, we are amazed that they should still cherish the hope of subjugating Texas.

The Texians received a very different sort of response when they appealed to their brethren of the United States: for dollars subscribed by the Mexicans we gave thousands.