The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-01

and the country at present an unit place for the i
vestment Of capital We still hope that the Congress
Executive and Cabinet ana that they will permit
every means to be employed to secure safety 10 the
rSveiier and to capital at the very earliest moment
Whatever objection there may be to clothing Presi-
Gent Juarez with the sample faculties" your cor
respondent Is confident that the country would have
laid them down and had Congress never met.
We nave no other opinion than that President
cnd,, ana Caplnet as unit are fully alive to the
but the mania for legslatinQ which prevails In Con-
gress, and the ridiculous guards which the latter
treasury box and upon the acts Of the Executive
tend TO place and keep the President and his Cabinet
NJ LYING ana false position. Mr.. Mata and Mr..
Montez are sustaining their merited reputatonS as
General German, who has been banished from the
country and was to have been sent to Vera Cruz by
tne dligence at his own leisure was by some blum
ger started on foot and ultimately put upon horse
Daca Mr. Lerdo de Tejada. hearing OF the fact tele-
gIHPheo 10 PueDla an order that he should immedi-
ste De unrestrained and suffered to make the jour
ney the rest OF the way at his leisure also learn
posai. While upon the subject OF the treatment
WMcn foreigners are receiving in Mexico l may as
% s;en refer 70 an aaar which occurred five days
since, ana which has as yet received no attention
from the authorities. On the night OF the 9th Of
TINS month small party of Americans, engaged In
experimenting the construction OF iron bridge at
santa Cruz, five miles from Apizaco, were attacked
a. midnight, while asleep in their BEDS by party OF
and each other with ssc as
t0s Gftngosr'|death to foreigners.) This term
means an foreigners but Spaniards. Without watt
money they fell immediately to Draining the five
Americans sleeping In their hunks or slashing them
numbered seyen and at the first blow they Knocked
TO lnsensibility two Of the five Americans,
n nnce s an and h
the Mexicans, resulting in terrible wounds to the
Americans and also to the would-be murderers, who
were finally driven or Mr.. John Branif Mr. Pryor
and Mr.. John Branif Jr. (Americans were seriously
wounded the two former received many wounds
upon the head and other portions OF the body. Mr..
John Branin suffered fracture of the skull. They
have been brought to this city, where they under
surgical treatment / cannot learn of any efforts
American press demand that Mr.. Seward forward
such instructions to the American representative
here as shall result in at least some show OF attempt
on the part Of Congress to punish murderers Of Amer
leans, II not to prevent murder itself.P
Your correspondent heard yesterday Of very
recent occurrence-that OF an officer who insisted
upon an American family renting him a room, and
ON being informed that it was not convenient to
do, threatenngly departed for an Official order from
sired premises. Returning soon with the order and
two soldiers he presented the former, and demanded
to see the lady Of the house. On being told by her
daughter, the wife Of an American gentleman here,
that she had gone out, he became furious, called her
liar" &C; that she was not countess prin-
cess and Mexico was a republic, "chOck full of free
dom" and finally went or threatening that the day
was not far distant when he would have rope
around her neck and that of her mother, and he be
Perhaps the press Of Mexico will deny this and
other statements made in this letter. Should they
dare to question the entire truthfulness Of it, proof
is easily attainabe. Yesterday was Holy Thursday.
Every Mexican was expected to buy rattebOX.
Paper Judases were tOted about the Streets and to-
morrow morning. Ornamented with fireworks and
gewgaws, poor Judas will be burned at the stake.
Nominations promenades and extraordinary eternal
pety prevailed. send very many extracts from the
Mexican press in proof OF the condition Of the
country.
On the Sth General Regules departed from the
md il larfv .n.x nft
ported TO have been sent either to MichOacan or to
assist General Arce, who is In Guerrero aiding Alva-
rez. General Huarta Is reported to have pronounced
at Michoacan, two days ago, Tor Ortega. This needs
confirmation. Negrete Is in Puebla district, having
pronounced. Galvez is between Toluca and Cuerna-
vaca WITH II Is said, 400 hundred men, others report
he has only $50.
had long series of extracts from the press Of
the capital detailing the rObberes travellers out
RACES, attempts at revolt, &c so common in Mexico
] foregO sending them as know space would be
wanting for them in the HERALD.