New-York tribune., 1870-08-09
PARAGUAY.
TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF LOPEZ
SLAUGHTER OF OFFICERS-RETURN OF
MADAME LYNCH 70 EURoPE-FAIsE STATE
MENTs ABOUT LOPEz-FUTURE DIFFICULT

MpNTs ABOUT LOPEZ-FUTURE DIFFICULT
TIES OF PARAGUAY.
fPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
AsuycIoS. June S.-Since my letter OF March
communicating the death Lopez, have been silent.
T, go, oc,or of the war the late Paraguayan Field
M.rba having been sent his last account desired
10 see what style OF report would be given 10 you a
home by those only remaining to give it-he Brazahs
who killed him. Well, having supped, as all OF you ouI
side Of this have done for five years. on
out you will not DE surprised 10 NC tou
no that the published accounts particularly the o'ncai
ones, of the last moments OF Lopez are tissue OF mis-
renresentatons give you the version OF the closing
scene as have 1t from one who was present. anu Oh
whose word place implicit reliance.
II appears that the morning or the ISL OF march
Lopez and his few remaining troops-nether 1000 nor
% times the number OF Brazans, as they say but from
200 TO 2Owere encamped the left or southern SIDE OF
the River Adudahan, at point called Aqudahanqui.
An outpost or vanguard was at distance OF three
leagues at place called the Tacuaras Pass where there
were two guns; with some infantry, ana from which
Iopez had report every morning forwarded 10 DIS en-
campment At daybreak the day in question, some
women told him that the cannon had been taken from
the Pass ybereupon Lopez dispatched officer to see
II this was the case as he had heard no firing, nor
had he received his usual report This officer did not re-
turn Neither did another sent after MN come pacK
Just Paraguayan President had mounted his horse
to make personal inspection with some OF his ofcers
sentinels being attacked and in moment the Braziians
poured down upon them in thousands. "To arms to
arms I" was the cry Of Lopez which was ut once re-
sponded to. Almost at the first charge the Marshal
| received the thrust OF lance IN his side, whlch
might have been mortal but while, with sword held In
both hands his head, and horseback he was an
swering Gen. Camaras proposal to him TO surrender,
shot, either from rifle or revolver fred from penhd tne t
General struck him In the breast and he fell from his
horse a corpse. So that the stories OF his having
scrambled across the river and being on his knees IN te
| ha
thrust Gen. Camara while talking are eauaiiS % u-
fonnded His eldest son. Col Don Francisco UaInlarly
styed Pancho only l6 years of age after fighting and
seeing his father fall was pursued by from - ~ ~ D
lillian cavalry. Madame Lynch, who was on te erOuh,
sent The voIger brother of Pancho named Enrique, to
recall him, and as the latter only IL years Oh age
rushed up Pancho asked him to round and fight the
BraziiiaI soldiers This piece OF fatuy could not he
carried out for the Brazians were down upon MIN ana
soon killed Don Pancho. Then Madame Lync, WIN ,ne
fury ~ despairng mother rushed III among the bra
zians and though unarmod saved her other boy IRON
The fa OF Lopez disheartened all his officials They
were chased and killed without tghtlng Among tneLn men,
was Vice President sanchez, feeble spare old man. VINO
had not many years TO ye and who you may TeneeI &
reported two oS ago % one eSbd Sr G % %oo d aS
ured by torture and ridded by bullets" Gen Roas,
killed But Gen Resquin fell his knees and threw
away his sword He is now praying for % his release 3, 6 by
| memory of the late Paragilayan President. .,,
The L0Ped ~ tSr III for
the day when he met his own fate, Is not believed III
Madame Lynch having run away the woods. She has
lust returned Europe with her four surviving sons the
! haired as any North American or English blonde
She passed three months as prisoner prisoner on On
this port wherein she had TO sleep on bare boards yet 1
is but fair to hat when r tng nea U te
wrote in March last TO the Brazilian Minister sennGr
given up prisoner charges against her OF
having appropriated treasures and jewery belonging to
others isenhOr Paranhos refused and pointed out That
inventory Of things in her possession being taken she
had nothing but few rilng gold ornaments, & suGn as
| tphf Ia ful ly he
In lactI believe has been robbed rlght ana et
necon with Lopez gives legal claim to redress
The mother Of Lopez and the two sisters are now residing
visited by very few people All the property belonging
to the late President, as well as TO Madame Lynch, mas
been sequesirated BY The Provisional Government but
glance at Du Graty's map of Paraguay will show
you that the River Aquidahan is many Leagues to the
south Of and nearer to the Asuncon thaIl, the Apa
have seen published tat nuIs9e hd @ az al
treat to NORTH thereby OF course meaning that he
flying Bolivia The locale of the last scene proves
that Lopez did nothing Of the kind Nor do believe he
| ever had an intention OF so doing.
in calumniating Lopez Not more than a week subse-
quent to the affair Aquidahan, they circulated
port the effect that Nesbt, Hunter, and Taylor ree
Engslmen in Paraguayan seryice) had been shot by
some Paraguayan soldiers, after Lopez had paid IT,
murder said to have been done by the Paragnayan
are now in The country Of the Upper Parana while Tay
lor arrived at Buenos Ayres week after he was re-
ported 10 he shot. DR.. skinner likewise who was said
Ayres In a recent English newspaper see it mentioned
about to be sent Rio This looks very pretty TIL
trased with what know to be the stern fact-that no
article clothing that his naked body put into the
ground in place not deep enough to cover it, and that
| Madame Lynch, with his surviving children, aug
for him and his Pancho, dug it with branches
OF trees and bits Of cigar boxes. There they now lie
side by side on the LEFT bank VI the Aquidahan, uneoi
fined aud maneed"
After all the hobgObin stories of cruetes and murders
committed by Lopez, you would doubt be rather sur
prised toread in The Buenos Ayres Standard Of April
in Which il is said People supposed TO have been shot,
need or hoeged to death by the late PIeSldent, are
This III the week when DR. Varea the part OF the
Argentine Government, and sehor Rodriguez on that OF
| Brazilian Minister. to hunt up the Triple Al
lance treaty. OF what nature the final settlement
Argentine newspaper see 1t stated that the result OF TINS
conference is to keep Oh the terms OF the Triple All
these there seems to DE permanency OF revolution as
settled institution, and In the province OF Entire Rios,
arranged The same paper observes that the new regu
TO tne pefet
master Of the position of Paray" or the latter state
meht there can be no doubt For walking through tne
streets Of Asuncion ruin In the face at
STEP The magnleeni palace of the late President has
you cannot help picturng Brazil in the words OF Lam
Vu eprouye JaInais sa force quen bnsant'
II anything would surprise the history OF this
war certainly should be the fact that among the depo
last september when Lopez rereated to Ascurra there
II not single statement 10 cooborae the reputed bar
bares Of the late President In all of them the kind
ness Oh Madame Lynch toward everybody, particularly
those sick and In distress spoken OF In the most crate
ful terms. One Of the liberated, an Irishman named
John Neae, from the County Wicklow, described the
treatment they received from Brazilian Colonel to
whose care they condded the Condo d Eu TO con-
duct them to the railway station 1.-THE Colonel told us
We were 10 be treated prisoners and denied us horses
saying we should afoot had sold my mule and sad
de i0r sovereign with which bought some biscuits
Ior the march, We wero three days the road the dis
lance beng Is leagues to Paraguar. once they killed
COW ana gave US some beef The very hot, and
III parts Oh the road We were up to knees IN water at