Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-15

! those who had anything to lose, aac
proof before | got home, for arriving a
the railway station just before sunset,
entered the cars amid crowd of people
returning to town, and soon after having
occasion to consult my watch L found that
it was missing.
The most unsafe place, however, a
present seems to be the railway between
this city and Puebla. The newspapers
here give accounts of attacks made BY
robbers on trains conv lying pulque, which
is the beverage drawn from the plant call
ed here the Maguey These attacks,
however, have been generally repulses
Not so fortunate has been the superintendent
and paymaster Of the railway which is yet
constructing between Puebla and Orizaba
Mr.. Quin, whom | saw the day after my
arrival, Just returned from an adventure
with the robbers. They seized him when
he happened to be without money, took
away his watch, and after a detention OF
two hours, b1rgained with him for his
release on the payment of fifty dollars,
which he brought them, and they returned
him his watch But the watch was not to
keep, for two days afterwards l heard that
they found him with six cen hundred dol
lars on his person and took that and the
watch also. Soon afterwards news came
that Mr.. Quin was kidnapped third time
lie had no money with him, and after de
taining him day or two the robbers allow
him to depart with the message to his
employers that if forty thousand dollars
were not Immediately sent them, they
would tear up the iron rails. The money,
however has not been paid, and the rail-
way is yet untouched The leader OF
these bandits is one Negr-te, who calls
himself General and claims to be revo-
lutionist, instead of robber.
| have passed the greater part OF one
day among the cemeteries. The American
Cemetery lies to the west of the city, at a
little distance; a spot till lately much neg
Iected and overgrown with weeds. They
are now putting it in order. \ rlvulet,
diverted from those which irrigate the
neighbOrlng fields, passes through 1t and
with little tendence this resting place OF
the dead might be made beautiful and kept
n perpetual bloom ami verdure. Here Is
a monument the Amer can soldiers who
tell III the war OF our country with Mexico
war in which | take no PRIDE through its
result was the acquisition of California,
and the acquisition of California finally
led to the abrogation of slavery. From
this we passed to the Mexican Cemetery,
where was to be celebrated the faneral of
General Leyva, gallant officer who fell in
a combat with those who are engaged in
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train was on its way TO the cemetery we
looked at the monuments, some of them
massive and sImptuous aud mostly in good
taste, with which the place was crowded
Here we read the names of many eminent
actors in the series of revolutions which
have 80 long and unhappiiy convulsed the
country. As We passed from one to another,
the secretary OF the American Legation,
Mr.. Bliss, who accompanied Us, and who
Is well read in Mexican history, referred
to the manner of their deaths. Here and
there was one who had fallen in battle or
died in his bed, Int large proportion Of
them were sentenced TO be shot as political
offenders 1t Is the natural death, he
of the public men here who
put themselves forward in a great political
50 we went from monument
to monument with increasing surprise at
the number OF tn Sc who died this natural
Death One of the most massive and sump-
ruous Of these monuments, hung with gar
lands of flowers, records the virtues Of the
wife of Juarez, who is now the President
Of the Mexican Republic. She was lady
Of Italian extraction, accomplished and
greatly esteemed. Her death, it is SAID,
was deeply felt by her husband, aud has
,ast shadow over his wonted cheerful
snd lively manner.
The funeral train now arrived soldiers
With military music, and the brother Off
,ers standing by the c flu pronounced his
suogy. Then 1t was carried to the grave,
and there Senior Guliermo Prieto, a poet
aud political economist, spoke with great
animation of the virtues aud services of
he dead. The crowd listen with deep
attention, and but that it was a funeral l
I'M sure would have broken into loud ap-
)lauses.