, 1868-08-07
The Paraguarnn Amazon..

ANITA Ulll are the female officers In c0m-
mand at the pass Of the River Tebichari,
where very respectable force of girls and
women is held under arms to dispute the
passage of river by the Allies. This is the
tenor OF the adVices that last came down
from Paraguay, and every well-informed
person in military matters knows that they
are correct.
Brigadier General Eliza Lynch, with the
main body of the female army, is encamped
midway between the pass of the river and
small inland town. On the road to Villa
Rica the right wing of her army, under the
command of the mother of Capt. Herrero,
has deployed slightly to the left so as to hang
on the invaders should they effect crossing
of the river and cut up Mrs. Margaret Fer,
reira and her heroic girls. Relays of girls
and women keep constantly arriving at the
headquarters of the feminine Commander>inl
Chief. From what we gather from letters
and statements, it would seem that the male
portion of the Paraguayau army is very
reduced, and are occupied in defending the
fortress of Humaitia, the positions near limbo
the encampment at Villa Rica, and the for,
tifcation at Lambare. The guerrilla por>
ton of the campaign is entrusted to the
women Of Paraguay and reliable data have
been received here that the troops to the
north, near the Tranquera Loreto, are ex-
clusively composed of women.
AS to the exact number of women under
arms in Paraguay at present it is impossible
to say, owing to the varied and conflicting
statements; but for years past a great por-
ton of the heavy work attending camp life
has been performed by the unhappy daugh,
ters of that once lovely country Even in
the trenches around Humaitia the weak arm
of women has shovelled out the earth to
make grave for the allied invaders female
chasques have gone from point to point
over the country with dispatches the steam
ers and vessels in the port Of Ascencion
have been alternately discharged and laden
by the trembling hand of the women in the
capital. Everything that these poor women
possessed has been snatched from them to
assist in the defense Of their country They
have toiled in the field for the last three
years they have sowed, raised and harvested
the crops they have made clothes for the
soldiers from the 6bres of plants they have
maintained the hospitals, cared for the
wounded and sick they have supplied the
army-and now, with Satanic power, they
are dragged to the front to fgnt the whole
Allied army
We, for our part, demand of the foreign
Ministers to send Commissioners up to Para
quay to investigate the real condition of
affairs and report hereon. If the Allies, in
attempting to cross the Tebicuari, have to
fight the girls, then the honor of Europe is
at stake in at once stopping this horrible
war The Allies themselves must see the
utter impOssibility of carrying on hostilites
upon such terms; suppoSing that it were
possible the Allied army could afford regi-
ment or division so mercenary and SO base
as to fight against the poor Paraguayan
women, and if in the battle the Allies were
SO fortunate as to win the day, not all the
wealth of Matto Crosse, not all the trophies
of Paraguay, would recompense for the tar
nished honor of such an ill,starred victory.
If the war is to be carried on under such
circumstances, then at least let it be on equal
terms let woman be ranked against woman,
and man against man. South America is a
strange land, where such eventualties come
to pass, and when the women have fought
it out on their own line, and the men also
fought it out on theirs, then let US take to
the children, send for General Tom Thumb
and his wife, and thus bringa felicitous con-
clusion to this celebrated and never to-be-
forgotten Triple Alliance War.
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SAGACITY OF Elephants in
peace aud war know their duty, and are
more obedient to the word of command than
many rational beings. 1t is said they can
travel on an emergency, two hundred miles
in forty-eight hours but will hold out for
mouth at the rate Of forty or fifty miles a
day, with cheerfulness and alacrity. 1 per-
formed many long journeys upon an elephant
given by Ragobah to Colonel Heating moth.
ing could exceed the sagacity, docility, and
affection of this noble quadruped ifI stop
ped to enjoy prospect, he remained i'm
movable until my sketch was finished if l
wished for ripe manages growing out of the
common reach, be selected the most fruitful
branch, and breaking it off with his trunk,
offered it to the driver for the company in
the houdah, accepting of any part given to
himself, with a respectful salam, by raising
his trunk three times above his head, in the
manner of the oriental obeisance, and as
often did he express his thanks by a MUIR
muring noise When a bough obstructed
the houdah, be twisted his trunk around it,
and though Of considerable magnitude, broke
it of with ease, and often gathered a leafy
branch, either to KEEP off the flies, or as a
fan to agitate around him, by waving it with
his trunk he generally paid visit to the
tent door during breakfast, to procure sugar
candy or fruit, and to be cheered by the
encomiums and caresses be deservedly met
with no spaniel could be more innocently
playful, or fonder of those who noticed him,
than this docile animal, who on particular
occasions appeared conscious of his exalta-
ton above the brute creatiod.
A BIT OF SUBLImTY. During the
French Revolution, jean Bon st. Andre,
the Vedan revolutionist, said to a peasant,
al will have all your steeples pulled down,
that you may no longer have any objects by