Litchfield enquirer., 1867-06-06
WHOLE NO. 2244.
on a fine plaza.
MAMMALIAN PcsrTroN.


 MAxIMLIAN's PcsrT1oN.
 An English gentleman, who left Ouerata. TO, a few weeks since, thus describes the situation of Maximilian and his forces:
 The imperial forces consisted of eleven thousand men, seven thousand of whom were armed with new Belgian and French rifles and muskets, the balance with con- demned arms, that were entirely destitute ot bayonets. The command was also short of ammunition. Maxim1lian had at his all of small calibre, with the exception of eight thirty-six pounders. The entire force with the exception of four hundred French and Austrians, were Mexicans and Spanish recruits When the city was invested by the liberals there were no Notifications in or about 1t but the army was at once put | to digging, and within five days the city presented a net work of redoubts, breast works, and rifle pits, the residences of many of the citizens having been tosn down to make room for the defenses. Nevertheless the city is not capable of being successfully defended, as it is situated in valley com manded by elevated positions, in possession of the liberals, who, with long range artil- lery, can in a few hours destroy it.
 Maximiliar has with him his Minister of War, Marquez, Miramon, Castillo, Mendez, Mejia and other imperial celebrities, who are dovotedly attached to his cause and de- term-ned to continue the contest as long as 2 hope remains They depend much upon divisions in the ranks of the liberals for a ty may profit and come to the top. Hence the pertinacity with which they hold out at Queretaro, which they propose to make their last ditch, inasmucb as there is no chance to retreat.
 The citizens had been subjected to sever- al forced loans-the last on the 3d of March, 1 of $50, ,000, which was paid notwithstand- ing the extreme poverty of the thirty thous- and inhabitants. All the mercantile trains l en route to the interior had been stopped, and the provision and merchandise confis- cated. The small quantity of provisions in the possession of private parties was con- tiscated for the use of the army. By an inn perial edict merchants were compelled to pay custom duties Q year in advance, mak- ing out invoices of what they contemplated 1 importing. A years tax had been collected in advance upon all real estate, and an ad- all personal property.
 This gentleman considers the provisions in tho city sufficient to subsist the garrison and inhabitants, by the exercise of econo- my, until the 1st of May, but not longer Inasmuch as it is impossible to obtain fur ther supplies from the surrounding coun- Jry, owing to the close in vestment, he feels quite certain that the city has fallen into the hands Of the victorious liberals and that the Austrian adventurer is now prisoner
 
 EG2g~ Womanhood suffrage is now pro- erossiyo cause beyond fear of cavil. It has won 8 fair ne1d w1Iere Uuue it was 1UUkeu upon as an airy nothing, and it has gained champions and converts without number. The young State of Kansas is fitly the van guard of this cause, and the signs of agita- ton therein hardly allow doubt that the citizenship of women will be ere long thor oughly recognized in the law of the State. Fourteen out of twenty of the newspapers of Kansas are in favor of making woman a yoter and Gov. Crawford, ex-Govs. Robin son and Root. Judge Schuyler, Gen. Ritchie and Lieut.. Gov. Green, are the leaders of wide spread Impartial Suffrage League, which has among it's orators Mattresses Stanton, Stone and Gage. The vitality of the Kansas movement is indisputable, and whether defeated or successful in the pres- ent contest, it will still hold strongly forti- i fled ground. Ex-Gov. Foote, of Mississip- pi, the Senatorial rival and professional as- l remarkable of recent contributions to this cause. He holds that universal suffrage, containing the principle of Womens s Rights, is necessary to virtuous politics. "Mon strous half notions of by-gone age of bar barism,'' writes this enlightened ex-rebel, ''yet steTnly and unanimously deny the right of suffrage" and he proceeds to argue that the women of the land are at least, as reasonably and morally qualified to elect our Government as those who now so often elevate to the highest places of civil rule the drunken, the corrupt, the imbecile, and the profgate." We take this expression as clear conquest of moral sentiment, creditable to Woman's Rights and to MT. Foote He has thus ''accepted the situa- tion," in its fullest aspects, and will yet have vote if Universal Suffrage can help him, or the enfranchised hand of woman take him out of his political quagmire.- | Y. Y. Tribune.
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