Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-04-02
Interesting from Mexico.
CAPTURE OF ZACATECAS, &c.

We are in receipt, says the New
Orleans Bee, Of Brownsville papers
the Courier and Ranchero, up t.
dates of the 23d of March. The fol
lowing, from the Ranchero's edito
rial column, is rather startling:
1t is startling fact that all tn.
acts, executive, judicial, spiritual ant
matrimonial, under Imperial reign il
Northern Mexico have been declared
uull and void by the Liberals. This
is perhaps the most thoroughly aw.
full step yet taken by the Liberal
outlaws. 1t is impossible to con.
ceive to what deep depths of perse.
cution this unholy uprooting of all
that is sacred may 60.
Marriages by the Catholic clergy
during the occupation Of the adjoin-
ing country by the Imperialists, to
be annulled. All judicial acts are
to be annulled, Christian burials
are to be declared the work Of here
tics, and are to be considered outside
the consecrated ground. Such, We
are credibly informed, is the course
determined upon by the Liberals.
The work has already been COM
menced in Matamoras. Already has
there been weeping and wailipg over
the graves of those buried in uncon-
secrated ground. And We presume
the work of marrying over again
and legitimatizing children will soon
commence, or has already been be-
gun.
Whether this work has been inau-
gurated as matter of speculation or
not we do not know; but the strong
probability is that it points to reve
nue.. We can conceive no other mo,
tive for casting odium upon thou,
sands, and piercing the most sacred
feelings of the human soul, without
they are done to extort money. 1t
is hard to realize that what we say
is true, and we wish there were some
mistake about it. We cannot con-
ceive how man can become so de-
mon.like in his nature as to become
party in such iniquity.
The idea of alarming devout wo-
men about the awful fate of their
dear, departed relatives and friends /!
The idea that infants were baptized
by the devil, and that some of them
so baptized are in the arms Of the
devil! The idea that the stain of il
Legitimacy should attach to children
born of parents who were married
under the reign Of Macmillan
The idea that a virtuous woman
should be married over again because.
when married before, Macmillan
and not Juarez reigned! There must
be money in it
The Courier gives the following
information, gathered from parties
who left Zacatecas on the 10th in
slant:
Miramon arrived in front of Zaca-
tecas, by forched march in the even.
ing, with 1900 men, only 700 of
which were infantry. He passed
the night in skirmishing with the
garrison, and in the morning ap-
peared in the streets of the city.
Benito Juarez barely escaped be-
ing a prisoner, as when Miramon
was occupying the square in which
is Juarez's residence, he was there
yet, and he hardly had time to mount
a horse and escape
The Republicans defending the
place were 5000 strong. The car
riage and twenty thousand and odd
dollars, so much spoken Of, belonged
to Juarez, and We're captured by Mi
ramon. 1t is not true that they
were recaptured.
Miramon captured, also, at Zaca-
tecas, several wagons, artillery and
ammunition, which he succeeded in |
keeping.
In the battle of San Jacinto, Mi
ramon lost only his infantry. He
retreattd with all his cavalry, which |
about two-thirds of his
force
lie carried with him from Zacate-
cas- the public archives and private
papers of Juarez, among which We're
some documents of the highest i'm.
portance.
The following proclamation has
been issued by Miramon
SoLDIERs-The struggle which is
our country is sustained by
S savage enemy from which the pop
ulation are fleeing from its acts of
violence. rapines and ferocions in.