New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-20
.Certina I'm the City Of MEXICO,

| Au0 JOuEu8le Oh t00 VlCy OF mexico OrlDf
US full details of the arrest and removal t,
the capital of the too famous General Cor
tina, and a. these details put the good faith
and energy with which the government Of
President Lerdo de Tejado has acted in the
matter in the clearest possible light, We
think it due to the best interests of both
the Uoited States and Mexico to give them
. vide publicity in this country. For this
man General COrtina has done more than
any one other individual to keep up the
vexatious and dang erous irritation which
tor some years past has threatened the iu-
ternatiODal relations of the two republics
along the line OF the Rio Grande. General
COrtina for long time has exercised . sort
Of fendal authority in the vicinity of Mat
amplas, and TO arrest him there in the
midst of his dependents and of great mu!-
titude Of other persons, more or less directly
interested in his ways and works, was q
deed of ''derripg do" 1t was indeed to-
Beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall"
General FuerO, of the Mexican army, was
charged with the duty. He acted with
great prudence and decision. Under the
pretext OF supervising the payment of the
troops of the fret brigade, stationed at
Nat amOras, he dispatched thither an aide
de-camp, Lieuter aat Itusrte. with secret
orders about Cort,na for Colonel La Barra
and Lieutenant Colonel PArrat. These Off
GERS at once employed trus'y persons to
shadow" the redoubtable COrtina, and it
was finally determined to Arrest him at bis
estate, the Rancho de Ia Union, about q
league from the port of Matamoras, where
it seems that this worthy chiettsin has been
accustomed to deposit his booty and his
smuggled goods On the first of July, about
A. NJ, Cortina left Matamoras with
ten followers for the ncho, where
some forty more Of his followers
were known to be awaiting him. Five
minutes afterwards Lieutenant Colonel
Parrat, at the head Of twenty-five horse
men, was in the saddle aod gallopipg after
him, the collector of the port giving out
that this force had been dispatched in quest
Of band Of smueglers. The American gar
risOn at Brownsville was under arms, having
been notified privately of what was going on,
as we'll as the Mexican garrison at Mata-
moras, and q signal was agreed upon be-
tween the two commanders in case Of Cor
tina's escape. A watchman, with q field
glass. swept the country toward the
rancho: At nine O'Clock dragon galloped
furiOusly in the city and announced the ar.
rest of COrtina, and at the same moment
almost the watchman reported, like Sister
Anne in the story, "a cloud of dust rapidly
approaching" This was csused by q car.
riage driven at full speed and containing
COrtina and his capt0r, Lieutenant Colonel
Parrat.
1t appears that for some reason or other
CortiDs had no sooner reached his rancho
than he rode out of it again, accompanied
by only two armed attendants. In this
way the conflict for which Lieutenant
Colonel Parrat had prepared himself was
avoided. COrtina rode directly into the
midst of Lieutenant Colonel Parrat's ad-
vapcing cavalry; and was at once ordered
by that officer to surrender. He drew q pis-
tOl and refused. The lieutenant colonel
covered him with another pistol and ordered
him to dismount. Looking around, Cortiua
saw himself surrounded BY cavalrymeu,
and ungraciously enough bowing to the
inevitable flung down his weapon and dis
mounted. He was at once carried into
Masamoras and locked up in the artillery
Three or four days of anxiety
during which the country side was
understood to be rising for the rescue of
Cortina. On the fourth q sc0undrel named
Portugal, already known a. . murderer,
was arrested on q charge of conspiracy to
murder Lieutenant Colonel PArrat and to
deliver his chief. On the fifth of july, in
rived, and on the sixth, early" in the morn
ng, COrtina was sent aboard under strong
escort. With him were arrested and de- |
'patched to Mexico an ex.iudge of Mata- |
noras, Diego CASTILLO Montero, accused of |
with him in some of bis extern |
live operations, and the assassin Portugal |
above mentioned. They were all cent for |
ward to the capital under guard, and Cor |
ina, on his arrival there, was at once |
ocked up in the military prison OF Santiago |
Cleltelolco, there to await his trial. After
Cortina's arrest his rancho was thoroughly |
No fewer than 1000 cartridges. |
With many rifles, pistols and sabres were |
Ound there, including Q Toledo ''swOrd of |
lon0r," with . superb Mexican eagle in sill
'er on the hilt, which was presented to this
'gregious hero by the city Of Matamoras in
1864. The capture of COrtina 90 embcli-
ned the local authorities that the councils
# Matamoras and Reyn0sa 1t once went to
YORK to pursue the marauders of all kinds
rho have 30 long sheltered themselves un. /
Ter his 9gis. Two cattle reavers, captured
t Reynosa, were hanged the day after his
eparture from Matam0ras to the profound
Of all the country.
The Mexican j0urnsle, not only at the
apital but on the frontier, demand that the
trictest possible justice shall be wreaked
pom this man, who, AZ one of them ener-
stically puts it, ''ior fifteen yerrs has laid
'sste the frontier, sowed vice broadcast,
nd despised the authority of the republic"
II course .Cortina will make hard fight
,r his life. He ls said to be worth $500, 900
/ cash, besides owning twenty estates,
18th many head of cattle and more than
lOusand saddle horses, and an unlimited
redit is stated to have been opened for
i'm with a commercial house in Mexico.
II this only shows how formidable a per-
mage this frontier baron has become. and
Effects the greater credit upon the Mexican
Dvernment for its decided course with re-
ard to him.
Cortina, we may add, is described at the
spital as being man ''of about sixty
bars of age, tall, with regular features,
luiline nose, and . long, full, snow white
sard. He is said to look very much more
ke an Evangelical Yankee minister than
ke General of the Latin race" A report
hioh yesterday reached US from Mata.
oras to the effect that ex-Judge CASTILLO !
Ontero, of that place, arrested with Cor
IA. has been released and sent home
.ain, would merit more attention if it had
me to us from the capital. 1t may be
ne, but on the face of il. it is decidedly i'm
York World.
A Brutal Murder.
Wednesday morning about ten O'Clock
III hlOOde6 Innr6or waa committed npnn |