The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-05-12

Last week we mentioned that civil war
still reigned throughout Mexico. We
CLEAN from our N. 0. exchanges the fol.
lowing sickening particulars of recent
tragedies enacted there:
CITyoF MExIco, April 10, 1859.
The acts of barbarity which have been
committed here in the past eight days are
of such atrocious, wanton and blood
thirsty character, that one shudders at
the mere thought of them. / must con-
TESS that in endeav ering to narrate them
my blood chills and my heart sickens to
think of these deeds-made more odious
and aggravated by the apathy shown by
those who should, in the name of humani.
ty and civilization, have come forward to
staunch the river of human blood and
stay the hellish feast. -
On the 18th inst, the Federals were
driven from Tacubaya, partially by dis
play of force, but principally, is believ-
ed, by the treachery of some oftheir own
general officers. The affair cost the gov
eminent dearly for every brave blouse
who bit the dust, at least a dozen of the
Government troops went down to rise no
more. The battle was sanguinary one,
and was gallantly sustained by the few
fighting men Of the Federal army, all the
Pintos having run off at first, without fir
ing a gun, and thus exposing about 5000
of their comerades to contend with about
$500 Government troops and forty pieces
of artillery. The battle commenced at
seven in the morning and lasted until af-
ter ten, when the superiority of the gov
eminent artillery told fearfully upon the
rifemen Of the Federalists, and they were
forced to retreat, carrying nearly all their
dead and wounded with them.
The Government troops entered Tacu-
baya at about half past eleven, and fin
ding but few of their wounded opponents
to revenge themselves upon, they CON-
menced a most merciless persecution of
all and every defenseless person in the
place. The soldiers were given aguardi-
ente to drink, and soon becoming wildly
drunk, they fell upon all those who were
at all suspected of having aided the Fed
eralists, and carried them off, in the most
brutal manner, to places Of confinement.
The surgeons, who had volunteered their
services to aid the wounded of both par
ties who had been brought to the hospital,
were, while engaged in their humane
work, dragged to prison, and still worse,
on the same night, shot like dogs and af-
forwards markedly exposed in the patio of
the Church of San Diego, in Tucayba,
for the qualification of those who believe
the cause of god was saved by this fen
dish brutality. Several gallant officers,
who had been cut off and taken prisoners,
with several quiet citizens, were shot at
the same time with the surgeons ! The
work commenced that night has continu-
ed with little interruption, to the present
time. How many innocent lives have
been thus ruthlessly cut off God only
knows. Thegeneral order is to shoot
and not report" learn, from person
who has right to know, that over one
hundred persons have been sacrificed and
still the work goes on. Where these
brutal murders will end no one can tell.
In the meantime Government papers
make no mention of these atrocities, prac-
tiesd upon persons not in the least degree
with the political affairs of
the country, nor with its internal strifes
most of whom have been of the labor
ing class of population.
These are some of the beauties of civil
war amongst race Of people like the
Mexicans. The very air of Tacubaya is
said to be fetid with the putrifaction of
human fesh and blood-the harvest Of
the fury ofthe priests against the throes
of the country for civilized progress.
The U. S. consul, Mr.. Black, is pack
ing his traps preparatory to leaving the
country. He requested the British Minis.
ter to take under his protection the Amer
lean citizens in Mexico and he 1.-THE b. N.Y.
declined