Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-01-06

counts of this sad event are quite contFadic-
tory, and it is uncertain whether the French
authorities had any hand in it. The official
account states that Commandant Gonzales
3y1nire, having learned of Comonfort's an
proach with an escort of $50 horse, set ont
with his forces to meet him, and had a run
ming fight for som" distance. In returning
back TO where the engagement began, twenty
dead bodies were picked up, among which
was that of Comonfort, together with various
documents Of interest. According to another
account, Comonfort's body was taken up bv
the adherents of Juarez's party, and carried
to San Miguel de Allendc, where it was made
the subject of post mortem examination,
and atterward buried with the military honors
due to his rank He was found to have re-
ceiyed a wound from lance Ia the heart, one
or two balls in the right side of the breast,
and several sabre cuts about the head
As COmonfort had considerable money ON
his person, some have supposed robbery to
be the motive of the attack /; but the prOba-
bility is that he was slain as one of the most
valued adherents of the Juarez cause. He
was born at Puebla in 1872. After raising
high in Military honors, he entered the Mexi-
can Congress in 1912. He acted a prominent
came President in 1895, holding the office
three years, when be retired before the rev
Olution by the Church party He went to-
France, but returned when the French in
vaded Mexico, and offered his services to
JuareZ. He was appointed chief commander,
and gained even the regards of his enemies.
The WEsTERNER.-This man has his ro-
nance, his high poetic feeling, and, above all,
rs manly dignity. Visit him. and YOU viii
find him without coat or waistcoat, unshorn.
| IN ragged blue trousers and old flannel shirt.
too o'ten bearing on his lantern jaws the
signs Of ague and sickness; but he will stand
| before you and speak 70 YOU with all the ease
| OF a cttered gentleman in his own library
All the Odious inciyiiitv Of the republican
/ servant has been banished. He is his own
master standing on his own threshold, and
4 finds 10 need TO assert his equality by rude
ness. He is eIighted to see YOU, and bids
/ YOU TO sit down on his battered bench without
/ dreaming of any such apology as an English
/ cotter offers to q Lady Bountiful when she
/ calls. He has worked out his independence,
/ and shows 1t in every movement Of his body.
! lie tells You Of it unconsciously in every
/ tone Of his voice. You viii always find in
/ his cabin some newspaper, some book, some
| token Of advance IN education. When he
/ questions YOU about the old country, he as
| tonishes YOU by the extent Of his knowledge.
/ / defy YOU not to feel that lie is superior to
/ his race from whence he has sprung in Eng
land or Ireland. To me, | confess the manli-
ness of such man Is charming. He is dirty,
and perhaps squalid. His children are sick,
! and he IS without comforts His wife is pale,
/ and 5Ou think YOU see shortness of life writ
| ten in the faces of all hIs f-mily. But over
and above it there Is an independence (which
/ sits gracefully upon their shoulders and
teaches you at first glance that man has
right 70 assume himself to be your equal
I Alatt0ny IroQope.