Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-08-24

scenes IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL-~YuE
SHOOTING OF GENERAL VIDuARRI.-A cor
respondent Of the /" New York Times F" writes
from the City Of Mexico, Oh the 9Th ult., as
follows
Today occurred scene on an out-of-the-
way plaza or square,; which actually chilled
the blood in our veins. Gen. Santiago vi
daurri, an old grey. haired Mexican patriot,
who had served for twenty, eight days as Max
imiliuns Secretary of the Treasury, was dis.
covered by the police at daylight to. day in the
house of an American. lie was rudely drag
ged through the streets to the city council
buildings and condemned 10 be shot to death
in the back at twelve o'clock, or in six hours
time. The old soldier aged sixty.eieht years,
never WINGED. lie bowed his stately form in
acauiesccncc to tho doom so easily pronounced
upon him, and asked only one boon, that he
might see his son. No you can see no son,
nor can YOU speak with any one but officers
and soldiers" Gen. Slaughter (ex -Confed-
cratc) obtained a respite for him of three
hours.
At 8 p. NJ. today he was partly led and
partly pushed through the Plaza de Armas,
close by and under the shadow of the Grand
Cathedral, and Kicked while his hands were
bound, through the two streets of Santa Do
mingo to small public square of that same
name, and there in the corner of square
made by the angels Of the ruins Of an old con.
vent, they blindtoldcd him, and placing him
in such a position that his corpse would fall
in scavcngcr's cflnls, they turned his back to
the troops and to the people, and literally tore
the chest Of the giant soldier of Nueva Leon
into sieve Not satisfied with his death. the
sergeant of the guard loaded musket, placed
it to his forehead, fired his piece, and none
among the living could have recognized the
brave old Vidaurri, of Nucva Leon, in the
horribly mangled body lying there.
There arc in prison in the old Convent of
incarnation in Gale Cordohanes. two hun.
dred of the notablcs of the $50 OF those who
constituted the Assembly Of Nutablcs of 1868.
There we go daily to see the wealth, aniloarn-
ing, the wisdom and intelligence of the land,
for out of that convent prison there arc not in
all Mexico.thc equals 10 any respect OF these
200 motabes. They are doomed men, nd
doubt, unless foreign aid comes to their res.
cue. ! nelr property votue ~~.-a---.-,
fast as possible.
James Wright, an American, was in prison
for having concealed General Nidaurr.
TIE EXCHANGE OF PkIsoNETs.--Thc tel.
egraphc despatch from Gen. Grant to Gen
Butler, in August, 1864, is reproduced in the
New York Tribune" of Wednesday, as
forming part of Gen. Buffers report to the
committee of Congress'i in relation tothe cx-
change of prisoners. The +" Tribune" says
In August, the rebels offered to renew the
exchange, man for man. Ctcn. Grant then
tclegraphed the following important order ::
1t is hard on our men held in Southern
prisons not to exchange them, but it in lu-
maDity to those left in the ranks to fight our
battles. Every man released Oh parole, or
otherwise, becomes an active soldier against
lis at once, either directly or indirectly. II
VIC commence a system of exchange which
liber.tes all prisoners taken, we have to fight
on till the whole South is exterminated. If
we hold those caught, they amount to no more
than dead men. At this particular time to
release all rebel prisoners North would ensure
Sherman's defeat, and would compromise our
safety here"
This is clear avowal of policy, and ap-
pears to relieve the Confederate authorities of
the responsibility which it has been attempted
to fasten on them, of refusing to make an cx-
change.
No BLACK MANS PARTY The {" New
York Trbune," of Friday, says:
Those men i'm the South who are workinr