Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-22
A MEXICAN BANDIT-HIS BORRI-
BILE ATROCITIES.

BILE ATROCITIES
Correspondence Of the New York Herald.
BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 29.-The Guadala-
lara correspondence Of the Ranchero Next
can News Association, furnishes us with
news to the 10Th inst, and although that
city and the State of which it is the capital
are renowned for its deeds of blood and
every crirae known in the criminal lists,
we have never until at present seen such
deeds of incarnate fiends placed on record.
They perpetrate acts Of barbarity there
which could alone be devised by the proge-
ny of revolutionary, barbarous people.
The crimes Of Clemente Ruiz, the Salisco
fiend, who has but recently been executed
for violating the three young girls of San
Petro de Pedro Gordo, numbering them
and throwing their mutilated and bound
bodies into a well, and the violation and
deyilish murder of the two young ladies of
Patzcuaro, have been, were it possible, out
done by the brigand leader Leon Chavez,
who lately started out on new crusade
which was inaugurated in the following
manner:
Tepatiltan, place of 1000 inhabitants,
on the national highway between Guiana
juato and Guadalaja, and 2S leagues south
east of the latter city, was assaulted on the
18th inst. by $50 of Leon Chsvez's men and
taken. Several thousand dollars were
found in the house of Agapito Navarro,
belonging to the general government, and
taken with them. They obtained nearly
$4,000 from all the merchants and left,
carrying off all the horses and several mer-
chants and wealthy people prisoners.
An attack was made by the same party
on the town of Zapotlanejo; but being
firmly resisted, the bandits left for the
mountains, from whence they turn up
again in this manner: Leon Chavez, the
unsubdued and apparently unconquerable
reyolutionist and highway robber, is out on
the plains of Jalisco again. He lately at
tackled, took, and burned part of Collin
lila plantation buildings. Besides burn
ing the larger number of the houses, he
robbed all the people and killed Overseer
Don Crispane Marquee. From that place
Their proceeded to Matatlan, and, although
he had about three hundred of his men
with him, he was obliged to give up the
attempt, for the armed people of the place
outnumbered his body of bandits. The
items above cited came to hand by the last
two mails in from the interior, and were
taken from the PrHeSa de GladaLdjard,
which, from its abundance of criminal re-
cords, we name the police gazette of Mexio.
BY the mail which arrived last night
we have the following, for which, if any
search for parallel, let him turn at once
to the blacklist deeds of the merciless in
quisitionary tortures:
F r(thorrac al b;s bon1
from before Matatlan, were not heard from
for several days. The night before last,
while attending dance in one of the San
Pedro gardens, several of the beautiful
daughters of our wealthiest families we're
seized by large number of masked vii
lains and carried away. This morning
lnez de I. was found at the same garden a
raying lunatic. Her hair had been shaven,
her breast cut open, and her person viola
ted, aud her reason dethroned, through her
sufferings She was nearly naked. On
her was found letter from Chaves, say
ing that unless 100000 in gold was sent
to his camp in the mountains west of the
Guadalajara, all of the other five ladies
would be similarly treated.
The money was sent, and after Chaves
received it-and it had to be carried to
him on a mule with a single servant-he
and his companion fiends fell upon the
ladies and outraged them. They thentied
them on to mules and left them in charge
of the servant who brought them the
money. 1t has not yet been made public
who all of these deplorable creatures are,
nor would we give their names to the
world. For fiendishness or inhumanity
for brutality-for all this is bad, damna-
BILE, awful in crime-this overwhelms them
all. Words cannot tell its horrors curses
cannot expiate, and no punishment known
TO mankind is adequate to these crimes