, 1869-05-13
LOPEZ.
Atrocities FerrctFnked By the Para
. xuMynu Dictator.


. xumyan Dictator.
.yne s.a,eu,ents contained in the following COM
,,11n,catton rest pa1tly on the authority OF Aocu-
meuts which le into the hands Of the allies alter
the nigh. ana psEs on 9e io1 esEqs ..
a resident Of Paraguay. anu surgeon 10 LoPezs
army. He was taken prisoner at The capture OF
teIa nom coioael sastnlento President Of the Ar
Crnttnc Repub1lc, and 10 m of0cial despatch Gust
puhAshed} by VI. Iinserwood' acting chsrse
- Among the 1cts OF Lopez, as appears BY a
nooE OF orders found At cunbaritF, md dated San
Fernando, 40 saerused.traltors,. natlres and for
by supreme command, between June il nad De-
cenoer II. lsss; 1'9 died IN prison or In irons; Of
1so taaen from prison e WORK u ths e trenches, I.
ell only were set ai liberty. According to Dr..
Stewart these names do not By any means c,rer
the Tn9 3 tss asFs & q
gusy. he says only about s, 600 arc LETT Of whom
4npu0 nre women and children. families Of the best
also says the people hate Lopez AMI sncs ths
middle Of 1866 the white population has hAl bit
one wish about the strnGgfe-that the allies or
some other power should rid them Of ther de-
HColonei Satmtento writes: The women were
driven into the rouutrf under an armel guard to
attend to agriculture, for which the words :. to
get their living were afterxard5 subst!tufci In
The ORDER Lopez has kIled I'll his prisoners either
hy execution, starsation Or tozture; amon: these
clou Tortured and then murlerfd', the wives Of
all whom he could not capture: foreign. native
~ 1 aaI sas ~ s M 81 sTo
ufr OF execution makes one shutter With horror.
BE sent for his sisters 70 come 70 his camp, and
lands a ss4s n eaiIs d IL yoa N 1nov o. IS, SIS s maa a.
asked Lopez Of one Of the sisters No DO not
know him." The drama concluded By the has-
"An explanation Of the patriotic devotion of
the 11ragua!ans 70 10pez, concerning which so
much has been said, Is found ID an order dated in
1s86 by which it appears that for every dseFtef,
the two soldiers nett HIN In the rams received
nfty lAshes. the Captain tort!, and the Sergeant
nfty. and their wives and n others we're shot.
Writes The allied army, p aoo strong. = march-
mG % the Cordheras to uneatth Lopez, vino has
s' seisssa {ns Sa1 3
Viii stu resist for he Is fighting now for h!a own
| life, Eithout EeEa1l 10 the country which he has
ESe1y one Who eames % aes. stn. il atsa1mos': ose
eace was itammesiatel! sno. The female pttsoners @
werr kept for mouths without change Of clothing.
and uel to 912Eeb IN the open ait without shelter
q ~ NY IND; .asy asse,. !es change Of posi-
| we're the only answers ever received. The s1spl
ctona Of Lopez that there was conspiracy against
hts life, Ire thought 10 have been felyned b him
TO excuse his wholesale bu,cheries The moral
| fesE Of = torture which no msn CHI withstand
SAYS Dy. Stewart, forced all the accused to coz
/ Aeaa ~ a faAAl4PAA4oh IL WHICH
confesstons were Fecon5ed for the pprpose u pub
Hcatlon tn foreign parts Such A1so Ia the testt-
mony Of NesATs. Bliss and Nasterman. They
thus account for their false confessions and
| their accusations against Nj. ..tahburne, VINO
1old them on parting 10 say ~, thing the5 pleased
| about him that would ssSt their WI itres, addiuS
| That 10 one would beiese Il out Of Paraguay Ah
these gentlemen concur IN testfying that they
neref heard Of any conspiracy, but from Lopez
himself. When Her l}11tsnnic Majesty's steamer
Cracker went to hike from Paraguay whatever
| British subjects might wish to leave, the accept
anee Of The proposition hs any q them would
| care subjected them 10 torture. No de+patchea
! have heen recei-cu from Mr.. MacMahou, our pres
cot Mlnstef to Paraguay, since last December. md
Mr. LldGerxood suggests that probably his actions
art as much clrcunscrihed " Lopez as were those
! Of Mr., Wasthufue." --