Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-08-01
FROM THE EAST.
dates to July 22d
From the Union Vedette. |

execution of Maximillian, az ainst a strong
inclination of Juasez toward clemency.
He publishes the following letter from
Max. to his wife:
My beloved Carlotta IF God per-
mits that your health gets better, and
you should receive these few lines, you
will learn the cruelty with which fate
has stricken me since your departure for
Europe. You took along with you my
heart but my good fortune, Why did 1
not give heed to your voice So many
untoward events, so many sudden blows
bave shattered all my hopes, SO that
death is but happy deliverance not an
agony to me. / shall die gloriously !;
like King vanguished, but not dishon.
ored. lfyour sufferiDgs are too great,
and God should call you soon to join me,
l shall bless the Divine hand which has
weighed so heavil upon us. Adieu! adieu!
Your Poor MAXI
Galveston, July 20.-Head Quarters
is overwhelmed with reports of outra-
ges in the Rel River country. Colored
people dare not accept an appointment as
register, for fear of their lives. Judge
Latimer, prominent Texan, resigned
his appointment in the Bureau, being a.
fraid of the chief outlaw, named Grist.
The colored people flee to the woods on
his approach. He was once arrested but
escaped. In Sterling Robinson county
colored church was assaulted, and two
men and one woman killed. Capt. Ran
dali, the Bureau Agent, raised hundred
freedmen and arrested two Of the ring.
leaders.
Denver, July 2l.-A Guide belong.
ing to Gen. Clusters party came in to day
and reports that he discovered the bodies
of twelve men who had been killed and
scalped, also horribly mutiated on one
of the forks of the Republican river, in
Kansas. 1t is supposed to be party
under the command of Lieut.. Kidder,
sent from Fort Sedgwick in June, with
dispatches for Gen. Custar, and who has
never been heard from.
Buffalo, July 20.-An immense meet
ing of native and adopted citizens was
held tonight to demand of the United
States Government protection for her
citizens in foreign countries and release
those now suffering in foreign prisons.
Washington, July 2I.-The Senate
yesterday confirmed large number of
promotions, and many brevets were also
conferred. 1t is believed all bills passed
at the recent session of Congress will be-
come laws, either by approval of the
President or by passage over his veto,
with the exception of the bill striking out
the word "white" in the statutes of the
District of Columbia so as to remove the
present discrimination against color. The
full vote which passed the supplemental.
ry reconstruction bill was 100 to 25.
St. Louis, July PA train of sece.
ding Mormons from Utah arrived at
Julesburg on the 18th inst.
Vienna, July 2l.-The Herald's New
Orleans special says late advices from
Vera Cruz state that the body of Maxi
MILAN will be delivered to the Austrian
legation. The remains are now on the
way to Vera Cruz. No truth in the re-
ports that foreign consuls have oeen mo.
Tested in Mexico
The President nominated Horace
Greedy for the Austrian mission.
New Orleans, Jnly 22.-From the
Galveston papers we have a weeks later
Mexican news. The Brownsville Ran
chero has reports of an army of observa-
ton, numbering $4,000 men, under Car
line, being placed on the Rio Grande.
The Ranchero publishes letter, stated
to have been written by Escobedo to
Gen. Gomez, directing him to use all the
means in his power to make the country
entirely Mexican. Escobedo says that
all the property in the hands of foreign
ers in Mexico, which has been acquired
by Mexican misfortunes, the Mexican
people should now take possession of it,
and have power to hunt them from the
country. He says his motto is "death
to all strangers" He adds, there is no
danger of the Yankees interfering with
us, SO long as the Southern States are