Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-07

dent Jaatex Declines to Make Promises.
FALL OF QUEKETAEo AND CAPTURE OF MANI
| MILAN AND HIS GENERALS.
| WASHINGTON, Monday, May ~.
! The following has been received at the
State Department
Telegram from New Orleans. May 26,
/ 1867, received at the Department of State,
| May u, 1867, at 9:55 A. nj.
To Hon. We H. IScw,nn:
! [ have this mouent received the follow
ing dispatch by telegraph rio Galveston
dated at Matamorts, May 81.
/ have the honor to transmit you the
following official letter:
SAN Luis PoTosI, May Is, 1867.
lfe~ Be'risabol, nty esteemed friend:
| Iira III Pariu! Q)ueretaro has fallen by
force of arms this morning at o'clock.
! Macmillan, Meiia, CASTILLO and Miramon
are prisoners.
Signed BENITo JUAREz.
Yours truly,
Signed, NJ. b. MARSHALL,
J E. L. PLUMB.
THE CAPTURE OF QUERETARO BY THE LIBER-
ALs-THE EMPEROR MACMILLAN AND ALL
HIS GENERALS To BE SHOT.
NEW ORLEANS, Monday, May 81.
/ A dispatch ria BRACES, May II, to Gen
Griffin, at Galveston, contains tue follow
ing
Have just received official information
from Berrisabal and the United States
Consul ut Matamoras that Queretaro was
captured by the Liberals on the 18th inst
Macmillan, Mejia and CASTILLO are pris-
Oners.
| Signed J. J. REYNOLDS,
| Ma or General
NEWS FROM MATAMoRAs-REPoRT THAT JUA-
REF ORDERS MAxIMDIAN TO BE SHOT.
MATAMoRAs, Thursday, May 26
| ria New ORLEANS, Monday, May n.
The following was received from General
Escobeda to day.
! Citizen Minister IF WT':
} At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 18th
! La Cruz was taken by our forces who sur
prised the enemy. Shortly after the gar
rison were made prisoners and our troops
occupied the place.
Meanw lille the enemy retreated toward
the Cerro de la Campana, where our artil-
lery caused him to surrender at o'clock
A. III.
Macmillan and his Generals Meiia and
CASTILLO, surrendered Internationally.
congratulations on this triumph of the
National Army.
(oigned) ESCoBLDo.
| Ge.i. Escobedo reports from the interior
that President Juarez has ordered the Arch
Duke Macmillan and all his Generals to
| be shot.
THE LIBERAL FORCES ON THE WAY TO THE
CAHIroN-EXPEDIToN AGAINST VERA CRUZ
| --sEIzURE OF \ STEAMER.
MATAMuRAs, Saturday, May rs.
The Liberal force which took possession
of Queretaro has started for the capital.
Comodore j. d. Patan, of the Mexican
navy, has been ordered by Gen. Berriosa-
bal to command an expedition against Vera
Cruz.
The Liberals have taken possession of
the steamer Gen. Sheridan for naval pur-
poses.
! So ends the struggle in Mexico.
NEWS BY WAY OF GALVESTON ANEKI-
CAN MINISTER TRIES To SAVE MAMMALIAN
--JUAREz WILL MAKE NO PROMISE
| New ORLEANS, Monday, May 81.
A dispatch from Brazos, riu Galveston,
says: A letter from the American Consul
at Monterey confirms the report of the
capture of Macmillan.
The reply of President Juarcz to Minis
ter Campbell recounts the grievances of his
party In consequence of the conduct of
Maximilian He justities the previous ex-
ecutions, and declines to promise the safety
of Macmillan i'll the event of his capture.
English Views OF the Radical Policy In
CouRress-Io,v the South is Governed.
From the London Herald Derby organ} May IA.
The present state of affairs in that vast
part of the continent of North America,
which has its centre at Washington, must
be an interesting subject of contemplation
to every thoughtful man. To the student
of history, to the political theorist, to the
partisans of democratic on aristocratic
forms of government to the practical phi
lanthropist, to optimists and pessimists in
such questions as the future of America
and the development of our race, to phi
losophers, in fact. of every shade and hue,
| this crisis offers spectacle strange as
it is ovel-disappointing, if not unex-
pected paradoxical, if not altogether I'M
natural. The fathers of the republic when
| they cast off their connection with Great
! Britain and her monarchical traditions, es-
tablished theircommon wealth on the broad
est basis of individual liberty that had ever
yet been asserted or claimed by man. All
men, they said were free and equal. The
several communities in which this country
was already divided were to govern them
selves freely and absolutely by the indie
pendent vote of all their citizens. The
Federal Congress and the Federal Govern
ment at Washington represented the union
of the States in its foreign relations; but at
home was as much restrained in its author
ity as the executive of the most limited
monarchy known in Europe. \
The Rump Congress which now governs
the American people has brought matters
to something very much like reclstcto al
absurduna Either the zen Southern States
are part of the Union, or they are not
If they are not, Congress has no po,oer to
make laos for then, any more than it has for
Canada or Mexico. If they are they have
a right to representation in both Houses,
granted by the original Constitution of the
Union, aDhich has nerer get been ubrogated.
and cannot, indeed, be set aside arithom hei,
consent. The Northern Congress. however,
has its army, which the South has no Ion
ger, and the power to make just what terms
it pleases. The use which it makes of it's
power is to deny to the Southern States all
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