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nate President Juarez.
The following details of the assassina-
tion plot are from the correspondent Of the
Brownsville RaneherO, March z. The Ran
chero was noted during the empire for its
antipathy to Juarez and the liberal cause !:
OF this attempt but little information
has been given the public. One of the
English newspapers here published brief
notice of the event in its issue of to-day,
but It was unconnected and erroneous in
all except the general statement. The
Chief Of the Police, Senior Francisco Vas
quez Aldana, is very uncommunicatiye on
the subject, but some of the clerks in the
diputaciOn have given me more particulars
than have been published.
Santa Anna, in this as in other moves
made by either the ex-imperialists or the
discontented liberals had no voice or infu-
ence, nor are any of his counsels enter
tanned. He has betrayed those who have
trusted him just once too often, and hence
forth must rest from prominent participa-
ton in all revolutionary projects in this
country.
Colonel Adalid was not second in COM
mand under Gen. Ramon Tabera during
the empire, nor ever on duty in the capital
while the empire existed, except from the
time he brought the Toluca garrison, in
February, 1867, to this city, until the sur
render of the garrison and capital by Gen.
Tabera The latter commanded here but
two days in all. Marquee turned over to
him the command on the 18th of June in
the evening. That was the same day
that Macmillan, Miramon and Mendez
were executed in Queretaro. On the 20th
Tabera arranged Tor the capitulation, and
on the Dist Porfrio Diaz entered the capi-
tai Adalid commanded the Toluca Light
Guard during the siege. He had been Pre-
feet of Toluca for two years.
Colonel Adalid offered to dispatch Juarez
az Booth did Lincoln, and his plans were
arranged the same as the assassination of
the American President formed his, with
the exception that he had advantages not
known to Booth. Juarez's box at the Itur-
bide, as at the Tealro Principal and Teatro
Nacionsl, is on the second floor, but furthest
off from the stage Of any other box in the
house. 1t is close 10 the front entrance to
the building and exceedingly easy Of ac-
cess. The Colonel had guard of twelve
ex-imperial lieutenants, who, dressed as
citizens, were 20 mount fleet horses. and,
having an extra hose for him, were TO
appear in citizens dress $50 as not
TO excite suspicion) near the doors of
the theater at nine NJ, or shortly after
the curtain was raised. Adalid was to enter
the box, the door of which was in the rear,
shoot and stab Juarez and then secure his
horse and fee. To farther aid him, fifteen
or twenty of the conspirators were TO place
themselves near the box and around the
doors so as TO interrupt the passages and
snch as would attempt to follow the assassin.
The assassination accomplished, Adalid and
his men were to make for the Citadela, or
arsenal, on the road to La Piedad, and
where the seventh regiment was to move
20 from the palace. The garrison at the
Citadela were to have hauled the flag down
and run up the flag of Carlota. Fifty men
of the seventh regiment were to have pro-
ceeded 10 the residence of the members of
Juarez's Cabinet and secure and hold them
as prisoners. Fully one-half Of this gar
rison, or 5000 officers and men, were pledged
to their assistance.
The discovery was made by the intercept
tion of a note from one Of the conspirators
TO Colonel Cara, in command of the
seventh regiment, called the Regiment of
the Supremos Poderes, which is composed
mainly Of young men belonging TO the aris-
tocratic families of the State of Guanaiuato.
The note by mistake was handed to a Lieu
tenant of Juarez' body guard, who read it,
and Immediately afterwards proceeded TO
confer with General Regules. The result
was the discovery of all the plans and
measures on foot 10 further them. Colonel
r. Adalid and CARA are in the military
prison of Martinique, situated in rear of
the Diputacion on the CdlIsiuslla.
Rumors are rife that some of Juarez's
counsellors are implicated, and that
clerks of the principal banks of the city
had engaged to open the doors of their
respective houses that the conspirators
might enter and obtain the specie on de-
posit in the vaults 1t is also a subject OF
conversation that the whole affair was
plotted by a chagrined Liberal General,
who has made his escape, and that the
conspirators were to declare for the En-
press Carlota, and call her to the throne of
Mexico.
Beyond these facts all is conjecture and
uncertainty. Escobedo, who, a few DAYS
ago. itit AhiS tapitdi, hds bctl hthb iOI ny
telegraph. Troops would be ordered up
from Puebla, but revolution is as immi-
nent there as here. The 60,l25 voters who
balloted for Mendez are war-angry over
the outrageous procedure of an illegal Le-
gislature, which illegally hurried Garcia
into the gGbernatorial chair, and the troops
at Toluca are required there to keep
Adalid's friends from rising and taking
that city.