The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-01
Tue Reported shoo.,uG of max,.,i,ia..

Our telegraphio dispatches are to the effect
18th instant An Austrian sloop -of-war, with
her national ensign draped in mourning,
landed q telegram at Southwest Pass, near
New Orleans, and this, through the Austrian
Charge d'Affaires, is now in the hands Of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, informing him
Of the tragic fate of his brother and the
refusal to deliver up his body to those
who requested it. There Is every reason
to believe that Macmillan is to-day
dead man, and has met the fate which appears
to be held in reserve for those who have thus
far attempted flibustering expeditions. large
and small. on the soil Of New Spain. The news
has had sufficient time ON the road to make it
authentic. BY the way of Matamoros it could
reach us in ten days if a steamer happened to
be at the mouth of the Rio Grande 10 receive
it. From Queretaro, where Macmillan was
prisoner, there is telegraph to San Luis
Potosi. From this point courier could reach
Tampico in four days, and a steamer from
Tampico to New Orleans in three days more
From Queretaro to the headquarters of
General Diaz, front of Mexico it is three days
for messenger, three days more to Vera
Cruz, even without using the telegraph be-
tween those two points, and three or four days
more by steamer to New Orleans. Thus, in
point of time, we have no reason TO doubt the
authenticity of the information.
There are also other and potentreasons for be-
leving that Macmillan has been shot. The Gov
errors Terrazas, of chihuahua, Viesca of Goa
hula, Auza of Zacatecas, Zarate CT Durango
in fact of all the great northern provinces
which have supported the liberal cause and
raised Il from the dust-have, in "justice TO the
Mexican people for the bloody and terrible
desolation of their territory" demanded Maxi
miiian's death. The petitions which have
flowed in upon President Juarez have repre-
sented to him that the nation could not
continue its support Of the LIBERAL government
through him if he spared Maximilian's
life. Zacatecas threatened almost imme-
diate revolt at the long imprisonment of
the Archduke, and San Luis Potosi, through its
Governor, Bustamente, represented that the
whole liberal fabric would fall 10 the ground
would Immediately reorganize the elements of
strife throughout Mexico. The army of Corona,
representing the States of Sonora, Snaloa and
Jalisco, demanded, at the threat of open revolt,
the head Of the foreigner who had landed in
Mexico, and set price upon their heads; and
from the troops of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
Coahuila and San Luis Potosi came the same
imperative and unanimous prayer, only to find
its echo in the army of Diaz, in front of the city
of Mexico. Juarez was inclined 10 mercy, and |
of his three Cabinet Ministers there was but |
one-Iglesas-wh seconded him. Sebastian |
Lerdo de Tejada, the Foreign Minister, and the
best statesman Of Mexico, and Ygnacio Mejia,
missing republican advocate of justice, were
with the Mexican people in their demands.
The pressure on the liberal government was
therefore national and apparently irresistible.
II was question with Juarez of mercy to
Mexico or mercy to Macmillan. Mercy to
the latter, however much his heroic action
of the last three months drew the sympathy of
brave men towards him, was to be the ruin of
the country, which, entirely disorganized by
the French Intervention, threatened to sink
into bloody civil commotion out of which it
might never emerge as homogeneous ma
tionality.
We have thus detailed the reasons we have
for believing tina. the news received is true;
and however much we may have hoped
that the Mexican people would incline to
mercy, we can but see that the liberal govern
ment has had such an overwhelming pressure
brought to bear upon it that it became no
longer a question of mercy with them, but
rather the saving of Mexico from the evils of
another great civil war on q new ISSUE