Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-01

The i.arasasy,an a,. Il, 4 Iaa nIaaanaona nzaoonna.-IIeu-
tenant-Coiouel Margaret FerI e.
ira In Command = Brig ,dier
Z General Eliza Lynch,s Camp,
Skc., &c., SC.
From the Buenos Ayres Standard
Lieutenant Colonel Margaret Ferreira
and Captain Anita Gill are the female
officers in command at the pass. of the 1
river Tebicuari, where very respectable
force Of, girls and women is held under
arms to dispute the passage of the river
by the Allies. This is the tenor of the
advices that last came down from Para
quay. and every well-informed person in
military matters knows that. they are
correct. 7.Y' .aai4ps7.sfr aef,ifi.. ,,
Brigadier General Eliza Lynch, with
the main body of the female army, is en-
camped 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 Captain Herrero. has deployed slight
ly to the left, so as to hang on the inya-,
ders should they, effect a crossing of the
river, and cut, up Mrs. Colonel Margaret
Ferreira and her heroic girls. Relays of
girls and women keep constantly arriving,
at the headquarters of the, feminine
Commander-in-Chief. From what we
gather from letters and statements, it
would seem that the male portion of the
Paraguayan army is very reduced, and.
are occupied in defending the fortress of
Humaita, the positions near limbo, the
encampment at Villa RIGA, and the for
tifcation at Lambare. The guerrilla
portion of the campaign-or what is
termed here the guerra de recursos'
is entrusted to the women of Paraguay;
and reliable have been received that
the troops to the north, near the Tram
guerra Loreto, are exclusively composed
of women. .srlr'is
As to the exactnnmberof women ,in-
der arms in Paraguay at present it is
impossible to say, owing to the varied
and conflicting statements; but, for years
past a great portion of the heavy work
attending on camp life has been per-
formed by the unfortunate daughters of
that once lovely countryl Even in8the
trenches around Humaita the weak arm
of woman has shoveled out the earth to
make a grave for the allied inyaders-l fe-,
male. chasques have gone from point to
point over the country with dispatches;
the steamers and vessels ine portkois
Asuncion have been alternately. dis
charged and laden by the trembling
hands of the women in the capisal-.
Everything of'worth and value that
these poor women possessed has been
snatched from them to assist, in the de-.
fence 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 tbs fibres of
plants; they have maintained the hos
pitfalls, cared for the wounded andSsick;
they have supplied the army-and now,
with Satanic power, they are dragged
to the front, and placed in the breach to
fight the whole Allied army ds saix
We, for our part, demand of the for.
eign Ministers to send commissioners up
to Paraguay to investigate the real con-
dition of affairs and report thereon. IF,
as the news goes, the Allies, in attempt.
ing to cross the Teqicuari, have to fight
the girls, then the honor of Europe is at
stake in at once stopping this horrible
war, The Allie s themselves must see
the ueter impossibflity of carrying on
hostilities, upon such terms supposing
ing that it were possible the allied army
could afford regiment or division SO
mercenary and so base as to fight against
the poor Paraguayan women, and if in
the battle the Allies were so unfortunate
as to win the day, not all the wealth of
Matto Crosse, not all the trophies of
Paraguay, would recompense for the
tarnished honor of such an ill-starred
victory. If the war is to be carried on
under such circumstances, if the Allies
must ssAt the women of Paraguay to
carry out the tenets Of the -triiple-alli
ance, then at least let it be on equal
terms; let woman be ranked against
woman, and man against man. South
America is strange land, where such
eventualities 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 chill
dren, send for General Tom Thumb and
his wife, and thus bring to felicitous
conclusion this celebrated and never-to-
be-forgotten Triple Alliance War.