, 1873-09-21
Incidents in the Career Of III Ell Jefe
do las Alicas.N
Ills Connection with Ex.Postmastor Fow.
Ter, Of How York City."Mr. +. Dis.
suales llim from luinins
llaximilian.
Lozada's Destruction OF the Armies of
Santa Ana and Corona.
How He Got Even with q Frenchman
1.-The Dictator's Mountain
Fortress.

Fortress.
Correspondence n The Chicago Tribune.
MAEAMonAa, Mexico, Sept, l, 1873.
The Mazatlan (Binaloa) correspondent OF tho
Boston Globe has contributed to that paper au
article on Manuel Lozada, the long and
celebrated Indian clofta1n Of tho District Of
Topic, Moxico. That correspondent, however,
has neyer soon the Jefe de las AtlcaB. and, con-
ecquontly, has to roly aololy upon hiasod hlex-
icau minds and reyengful Moxican newspapors-
wiotchod apologies M they all are for nows-
papors-for his information. Impnrfoot, and
crt,ie, and disconnected as 1t il, howovor, tho
press Of my country has quito genornlly repro
ducod the article.
l uni able, believe. herewith to supply tho in
sido life Of the dead chiofsan, and particulars OF
his district-Tepio--wh no other living
writer can give, for believe tllat I nm tho only
nowspapor mAn wl,o ever visited and interviewed
Iozada. This interview and visit, too, were had
with surroundings which will add lntenscr inter-
est to tho events recorded.
AN Ex-NEw YonK CITY POSTMASTER.
During The summon Of 1870 while crossing tho
Union paoinc nailroad from San Tranolsco to
New York, aud whom nearing Omaha, gentle-
naan Of striking foatnros round, largo faco,
pleasing eye, stout frame, tal1, well-proportoned,
waa suddenly takon Ill. Against tho advice
of follow passengorB, he insisted on re-
naiuing on tho train, instead OF going to q
hotel at Omaha. Crossing Iowa and Illinois,
although aa carefully nursed as circumstances
would permit ho grow ssorso; roachipg Chicago,
was carried to tho Sherman House, and, the
second dny thereafter, died. That man WIS
1Baao Y. Fowler, o3-PoHtmaster Of Now York
City, who, during Buchanan's Administration,
nrconaciouAly defaultod by lending his party
large sums OF money out Of Post Olice receipts,
and, discovering 1t, fed an exile to Moxico. For
ten long yoars this accomplished gentleman was
q hand-in-hand companion OF Manuel Lozada.
and, during that time, WAS tho willy Indians
counsolor,-tho only one in whom no implicitly
relied, aud tho only man who could sway the
stubborn chieftain from any plan Of his onco
formed.
1t was your correspondents privilege to pass
tho autumn OF 1867 under the hospitablo roof OF
Mr. Fowler His tlno homo was about QUO milo
and quarter from Tho City OF Tepic on the loft
bank Of HilYary RIO, the waters Of which turnol
tho wheels which ran the cotton manufnctory
La Jonga, the property Of Mcssre. Barron,
Forbes l. Co., bankers, Of Topic, City OF Moxi-
co and Guadalajara aud Mexican connection
then of the groat banling-houso i'll London Of
Barring Drothors. hr. Fowler, on leaving New
York. took steamer for HAVANA. There he
awaited correspondence, including letters of
recommendation from Now York firms to cor
respondents in Moxico. From Havana
he sailed for Vera Cruz. md thence by diligoneia
he proceeded to tho City OF MEXICO. Mr. Dar-
ron, then quite q young man, but head of tho
great banking-house, at once offered Mr. Fowlor
Che lucrative position of Superintendent OF La
$t1 "a mfg tppa
promptly accepted, and the self-oxpatriated ex-
Ilo proceeded over tue intervening statcs Of
Moxico-Quorotaro. Guanajuoto AMI Jalisco-
into Topic. An elegant houso way rontod for
him. llo WAS given carte blanche liberties with
the factory. All ho had to do was
to go ahead, enlarge, and otherwise improve
it It will, and present accounts to the hsn.
lie surrounded Ills home With high wall, ILL
closing ton acroB of ground. On it we're orange
trees, cocoa-nut .rams, and other fruit trees.
Flowers Of mauy hucs, rank plants and shrubs,
adorned it and in bachelorlood and quiet the
ex-postmaster Of tho metropolis Of tho United
States lived away the years III one Of the most
beaatifuI, fertile, peaceful, and prosperous val
MANUEL 1ozApA's LIFE,
disconnected With that TT Isaao Y: Fowler, is an
eutjroy different thing. Tho world cannot uu-
l~rntanA Lozada talen aside from his DAeno
Amigo Amelicano,-" mi coMpndro Sonor FoW-
lcr." Between these mon tlero arose bond Of
mutual interest. Detwcea the people Of Tepic
md Lozuaa a1r. Fowler stood tic only mediator,
tie only barrier between iron uallrpation md
Lozada could not ba influenced or Centralized
By another influence, Mr.. Fowler WAS interceded
with to Interfere, and, If the caslEe WIS not
trivial, he would seek 1oznda at San Luis, his
fortified 1nouutain-fastnaeR, and by argument Or
appeal, almost always succeodcd in changing
tho chioftaiu'a mind.
What frat brought those antipodal mon to-
EetAer WAS tho fame of In Yonga factory nftor
H., nj
thousand BpindloH, many loo1ns, and much fne
nlachineEy from American mauutuctorieH. I.o-
xada visited and inspected the factory III the
summer Of 1850. and at onco became an ardon
ad1nrer Of MIR, Fowler. He oftan rode in aud
dined with tho American, whose table always
hold tho finest Of oatabies as o)l az the choicest
Of liquors aud wlnes, BY observing the ina-
provenents made by Mr: Fowler Lozada began
the soil, aud supplied hia Mnlsa AmerIcaua with
funds with which to import agricultural imple-
,nents and machinery. Ho walled in i farnl OF
neatly 800 acres Of land on tho mountaiu-slope
machinery and implements il eultiyating this
taym. He toilel daily in tLo fields grow tohac-
ca, cotton, corn, barley, rice, oats, wheat, aud
and roapinE muohlno, grais:drila, plows., plant
coyt.-shellera, fo.!aer.cutters; aud in 1867,
Wien tho writer visited Tepio, there
Nefo Aundfe1h OK lNlpfoVeu ARfaeuA-
tural implelnentH md machines scattered
throughout that fertile valley purchased ly
those who had scon Lozadas, Thus Indirectly
Mr.. Fowlara exile proved that good may grow
out Of bad. Still, hardly can VIC Bay thls,-for h1r
Fowler, as Mr. Lincoln nfterWard said whom
i'll 1864 ho partloned tho oxiIe. " committed no
crime; ho WAS rather criminally indiBereet.' u
Nevertheless llo was tue cause direct Of tic
modification OF tho olliottainH lfo, tha ca,,Ao OF
tho improvement Of the people Of tho Topic Dis
trict, mud, from him, while undor hin root, wo
lear1led very much Of tho life of Lozada.
THuE AND UNTRUE.
That Mexica1lH llated Lozat!a, ia true. That
they 1naligued him, is also true. That hn over in
trudad upou their territory to commit deproda-
t!onB, III false. That lie acAcd tho Genoral Coy.
erutr,ent from youth till bowed with old ago. atlt
il the causo Of tile universal hAtred by Mexioa1ls
Of LQzat!a. This eoMeA from the pnniBh