The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-08
4 4 Ii > i IA DAAA U N
Brothers Of the Mystic Tie.
Poor Distracted Mexico.
A Terrible Disaster from lightning,
Three Men Killed and Two Wounded
The New Railroad War.
ETC., ETC., Etc., ETC., Etc.
A Terrible Disaster from Lightnil
Three Men Killed and Two Wounded
MEXICO.

MEXICO.
Trial by Jury = Revolutionary Movements
Resistance to Tax Levies-A Mexican Sam
son.
MEXICO, May 10.-In Vera Cruz the Governor
in virtue of extraordinary powers which were
granted to him by the Legislature, has issued q
new law for the administration of justice in his
State, and in which he suppressed the system of
juries that was established there about q year
ago. What would an Anglo-SaXon community
say of Governor who should suppress the trial
by Jury? Here the fact has been merely pub
lished, and have heard of no comments in the
newspapers or elsewhere. The fact is very
suggestive of the difference in character and
circumstances of the Latin race as compared
wi b the speakers of English.
In the General Congress there have lately
taken place animated discussions respecting the
creation of a Senate to moderate legislative
action by dividing it between two bodies instead
OF leaving all power in single chamber as is
now the case. President Juarez manifested
great interest for the success of this reform and
on the Goth inst. it was voted, after debate of
several days, by 116 to 40 votes. The act will
now have to be presented for ratification to
the Legislatures of the States which compose
the federation, and If it should be approved
by a majority of two-thirds of the States,
which is very probable, it will become the
law. Also, there have been strong debates about
the concession which has been solicited by
an American company for the construction of
sbip-canal across the Isthmus of Tehuautepec
All the deputies are in favor of the idea but
many argue that the company ask for advan-
tages that ought not to be granted, and that it
does not present sufficient guarantees for the
effective execution OF such colossal enterprise;
and on these points the company may possibly
suffer a defeat, Notwithstanding the great and
general desire which here prevails thatthe inter-
oceanic water communication between the At
lantic and the Pacific may be effected in Mexi-
can territory.
The revolutionist Casimiro Alfonso, with some
200 men, concealed himself at dawn of the 10th
1tlt irnn fha mall nf T.
Michoacan. He sent twenty-five or thirty men
into the town, who committed various excuses,
especially against female honor. In conse-
uuence, the inhabitants fell upon the bandits
Killed several, and put the rest to flight but
not satisfied with this triumph they sailed in
pursuit, when Alfonso, with the rest of his men,
rushed upon them from his ambush killed some
fifty of the inhabitants, wounded greater num-
her, entered the town with fire and sword, and
delivered it over to pillage and all kinds of
atrocities.
On the other hand, we have intelligence from
Guanauato that Don Pedro Yepez DESTROYED
band of forty rebels in the rancho de la ''Or-
dena," near Trapuato, killing ten, taking three
prisoners, who prove to be great criminals, and
will doubtless be executed, twenty-five horses
arms and other spoil.
VERA Cruz, May 15.-The Governments of
the States of Vera Cruz and Puebla have pub
lished DEGREES for an augmentation of the taxes.
These recite that by reason of great war ex-
penses there is not money enough left in the
State Treasury to pay the public employees;
therefore an extraordinary tax of 90 in the $1,000
is to be imposed upon all property in the re-
spective States. There is also levied tax upon
all incomes of Government employees over $40
per month. The levy of this latter tax gave
great dissatisfaction, and the Government of
Vera Cruz had received notice from different
quarters that the tax would be resisted, and was
accordingly taking steps to enforce the law.
The Impeachment Court at the capital found
Deputy Trinidad Garcia guilty of sedition and
treason. The vote was 100 ayes to nays. He
will be expelled from Congress, and then most
probably be permitted to go abroad upon a par
don from the President
New FiIbust ering Enterprise General Rose.
Grams and Bankbead MaEruder said TO be al
Its Head.
BROWNSVILLE, June IA flibustering expe-
dition into Mexico is now organizing. The pre-
lmnary steps were taken several months ago
when, you recollect, General Rosecrans, late OF
the United States Army, paid visit to that
country, and traversed it extensively. The
leaders of the expedition will be former
the late Coufederacy, with General Rosecrans
in supreme command. The headquarters are
in New York city. The principal subordinate
departments are Chicago, st. Louis Philadel
phia Houston, Texas, New Orlaans anC
Shreveport, La. Major r. Shelly, Tribune
correspondent during the war, has something tC
do with this expedition. He has been in Chicago
for the past month and may still be there. The
Confederate General j. Bankhead Magruder il
the commander of the New Orleans portion o
the expedition, and, from all hear, will play
prominent part IL the affair. Ine federa
authorities at Washington are fully aware of thi
decisive steps about TO be taken, and, as thu
saying is, wink at it,"
The grand passage over the Rio Grande auC
into the Mexican territory win take place TIVE
months hence. The plan is as follows:-Rose
Grams and the Mexican General Escobedo, who
am informed, is their hero, and in suprem,
command of the Mexican forces in the North
east, and who fought the late Emperor Maximi
lian we'll have come to a satisfactory under
standing, and in consideration of a large sum O
money paid to EscObedo, it is mutually under
stood and agreed TO conduct the enterprise a
follows:-
The flibusters will enter the country alon,
the border in squads of twenty and upward, a
if they were immigrants, miners on their way Z
the gold mines of New Mexico, cattle-droVers
and The like. General Escobedo is to Withdraw
his army one or two hundred miles away froI
the border TO enable the expedition TO enter tn
untry, organize, and then advance as a mil
tary force. Then both armies supposed to b
hostile are to advance and to have a short shaI
engagement, at the termination of which EscC
hedo is to break and fall back in utter confu
sion, and then to aid and assist the carpe
baggers TO conquer the country and establish
government with Rosecrans or some one else q
lis head, which government will ultimately
turned over to the United States authorities
Accident 10 Olive Logan,