The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-16
Hnteresting from uexieo.

Interesting from Mexico.
By the French gunboat Maruan, Capt.
Varin, arrived at this port last Saturday,
we have news from Vera Cruz up to the
2lst of April.
The officers of the Marian seem conf
dent that the news of the capture of Puebla
will be announced by the next mail. Pub
lie sentiment on that subject was such that
even the partisans of Juarez had given up
all hopes of a further resistance, and con-
sole themselves with the hope that the in
| undation of the City of Mexico would DO
| what the walls of Puebla refused to do,
and annihilate the French army as the Red
Sea did that of Pharaoh.
No repulse or reverse of any kind had
been sustained by the French since the ar
rival of Gen. Forey in Mexico. The pom
pous bulletin of Gen. Ortega announcing
the repulse of the French from Fort San
Xavier was untrue. The fort was first at
| tackled with cannon, then blown up, and
no effort to storm it was made before these
operations were performed. r.
After the capture of Fort San Xavier the
French batteries ceased their fire, and the
operations of taking the city by storm be-
gan. This was done by sending few COM
panies of Zouaves into the streets of Puebla
with the order not to fire shot, but to act
with the bayonet alone. This order was
street he generally manages TO escape the
fire of Ortega's soldier, either by leap or
by throwing himself flat on the ground
Then he gets up, PUSHES at all speed to the
house or battiement he wishes to take,
breaks open the door and pursues his foe,
who never waits for the point of his bayo-
net. 1t is in this way that two-thirds OF
the city of Puebla has been taken.
One of the objects of Gen. Forey in get
ting hold of the Cathedral now in his pow
er was to have ground high enough to di-
rect a plunging fire upon Juarez's forces
doubled up on the hills of Guadalupe and
Loretto. 1t was expected, however, that
these two forts would surrender in conse-
quence of the suppression by the French of
the two streams which were supplying the
army of Juarez with water. - . -
1t is calculated that since the beginning
of the siege of Puebla the Mexicans have
fired $4,000 cannon, and ,00O, 900 rife shots,
killing IL French soldiers only, and wound
ing 16i. f..g.- .u.r .....s. 90
The policy hitherto pursued by General
Forey, in his operations, IS not to make a
glorious campaign, but a useful one, and TO
carry his army intact to the City of Mexi-
co. 1.-THE taking of Mexico he SAYS sis
not a question of blood but question of
time. do not come here to gather laurels,
but to obtain serious advantages as profita-
bic to the Mexicans as to France The
their General must finally bring good re-
suits, and manifest no Impotence at the
slowness OF his movements. They even do
not grumble at the SYSTEM adopted for the
siege of Puebla which, they say, they
might have taken in three days by assault
ing it, and wait patiently for the surrend-
ering of the place.-E. Y. Tribune.
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FEMALES AND FAMINE.-Everybod
knows what a fine figure the 2ooindrds of
Paris makes i'll the annals Of multitudinous
French Revolutions. Everybody knows
that when bread was scarce and high in
Paris aforesaid, there was = mortal misun-
derstanding between the fish-wives and
the unhappy bakers, whose shops were Of
ten invaded by a truculent army in short
pettlcoats, which without leave or license.
or the disbursement of single sous, car
rIed away the costly loaveS. The tenden-
cy OF history, under identical conditions, to
repeat itself, is somewhat curious They
have revolution in Rebeldom, and by the
latest advices we learn that they have also
bread mObs of feminine constitution,
Ihlrty-one of the softer sex, under the de-
moralizing influence of empty stonachs.
raised the other day in Richmond the stan
dard OF private rebellion, and having ere
ated ga tremendous Robbery" have all
been marched to a gloomy dungeon, there
to tell the sad tale of an unsatisfied appe-
tite to unsympathizing walls OF stone. In
some respects, these terocious DANES are
better Off in prison than out of it, since the
Contederacy will hardly condemn them to
the fate OF Czolino, but must, perforce,
while so much loneliness is locked up,
keep it from utterly whiting by moderate
rations of rusty pork and worm-drilled
biscuit. The gallant .jaiIer doubtless war
bles at the door Of each cell: 81 give thee all
Il can no more, though poor the Offering
be; this bread and pork is all the store that
can bring to theen' But notwithstanding
this modest depreciation OF his supplies by
the susceptible custodian. it is clear that
bread and pork and Imprisonment are bet
ter than no bread, no pork. and the largest
liberty. Hence 1t is probable that the next
news from Richmond viii tell us that the
ladies, headed by some extremely hungry
Boadicea, have taken the jails by assault
and, under pain of death, nave compelled
the reluctant turkeys to lock them up,
and to receive them as unwelcome board
ers. Should these conjectures prove to be
we'll founded, the dungeons of Richmond
will be more attractive than the biggest
Northern hotel under the rule Of the most
"gentlemanly proprietor and the mag
mates of the city viii find it to be far easier
to let the ladies loose than to feed them!-I
Twill be very puzzling business.
Now, if under these embarrassing cir
cuInstances, We shau!d be consulted by the
ulStTdctcu mayor Vi RICHMOND upon the
best course 30 be pursued, we should say
at once: "Why don't your worship import
a guillotine? For we must say that, here
tofore, the Southern method of dealing with
the disaffected has been little coarse and
clumsy. You may, ifyou have the heart
and hand of a man-owner, clothe a woman
in tar and feathers, but even that gallina-
ceous and adhesive covering, will not if she
isWorthy of her sex arrest the.heet delivery
OF her tongue. Hanging is at best but a
slow business. On the other hand, the
guiliotine, will slice off twenty recusant
heads in an hour; and it might by the ad-
Justment OF some simple machinery, be
worked by steam; in which case there
would be hardly any limits to its powers of
decollation. A head thus taken off will
clamor no more for bread. The life thus
extinguished will be no more an expense
upon an exigent commonwealth. The ex-
ample thus set will have salutary and ST.
lencing influence upon the grumblers. and
the boldest will no longer dare let appetite |
get the better of patriotism. Why should |
the ears of Jefferson Davis, living as he !
does in state of chrenic botheration, be |