New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-23
Matters In Mexico.

Matters In Mexico.
From late files of the T,co Republics the
following items are selected:
The rebels commanded by Figueroa, who
has made him self notorious as the destroyer
of the engines on the Vera Cruz railway
Cortina, Of Rio Grande fame. and joaquin
Martinez, who recently played Toled0's
game in the State OF HidalgO, numbering
about 1000 men, were defeated by Colonel
Vale on the first instant, at an haciand8 in
the State of QueretarO called Ajuchitlan.
Colonel Valle's force only numbered about
800 men, but Notwithstanding the difference
in numbers, after short and bloody fight,
the rebels were completely routed, with a
loss OF seventy six killed, fifteen wounded,
400 prisoners and $50 stands of arms. The
government had thirty men killed and ten
Figueroa was wounded in the fghS.
POrfrio Diaz is lost; his friends say, and
have said for more than two weeks, that he
is marching on z lcatecas. The friends of
the government say he is with Colonel Fal-
con, near Monclova, between Saltillo and
Piedras Negras.
1t is reported that General Ceballos has
induced the rebels of Topic to submit to
the government.
Last Sunday large force of revolution
lists, supposed to be commanded by General
Mendez, approached the railroad near Sol
tepec, General Sanchez Rivera. who was at
Apam, retired to Apizaco without being at
tackled; the down passenger train was not
permitted to pass, but the up train after
having been detained at Rinconada and all
the mail taken by the regeneratOrs, reached
here on Monday at A. NJ; the same day
the rebels retired from the line and trains
continue to run with regularity.
According to the official report of Cen
eral Alatorre, the loss of the government
was l2l killed, l56 wounded and 367 miss
ing.
A paper published in Durango says Gen
eral Trevino is in the Laguna, on the West
ern line of Coahuila, with considerable
force of cavalry.
General Escobedo is supposed to have ar
rived at MCnterev on his return to San Luis
POtosi
Generals Corella and Ibarra, who were
wounded in the battle of Epatlan, were
brought to this city on the second instant.
The wound OF Ibarra is considered not to be
very dangerous, while that of Corells is
very serious, and great fears are entertained
of the result. Both these gallant officers
have our best wishes tor their early and
compile recovery.
CoRTINA's PRONUSCIAMIENTO.
General Juan n Cortina to the Nation
FELLOW CIrIzENs-Ten months ago the
despOtic government of Don Sebastian
Lerdo de Tejada tore me from my home
where l lived quietly at the side of my
family, availing itself, for this purpose, Of
mean and miserable calumniee, which, de-
string to give q varnish of legality to an
act really Unauthorized by law, the govern
ment itself put in circulation. Six months
I was in prison in the capital OF the re-
public, pending the Investigations which
we're being instituted, and from which the
government could not do less than deslst.
convinced of the fruitless result of its per-
serve Vaccinations.
The trial being abandoned l was taken
out of prison, the Minister OF War ordering
me to remain in the capital, where spent
three months more, subject to an excessive
surveillance from the police, and with the
restriction that l should not 60 even a
league from the city.
This unjustifable excess of arbitrary acts
exercised against me had no other origin
than the caprice of the government which,
knowing my integrity, understood that 1t
could at no time rely upon me, nor make
me its accomplice in the efforts for the re-
election, to which it aspires with entire dis
regard of the unanimous will of the people,
who reject it.
Now that have succeeded in freeing my
self from the clutches of the tyrant and IN
regsining my liberty, / earnestly protest
before the nation against the outrages COM
mittted upon my person by the arbitrary
government of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada,
and | assure you also that l will be, as
ever, the defender of the guarantees which
the constitution of 1857 comedies to tho
people, and which the plan of Tuxtepec,
proclaimed by the we'll merited citizen,
General PortiriO DiaZ, seeks to make eftec-
tive, which plan / accept and second in all
it's parts and will defend at all cost.
Invite. in the name of the public libec-
ties, all Mexicans who love their institu-
tons, and who in other times have fought
with me in defense of liberty, to rally
around the flag which is unfurled by the
we'll merited General Porfirio Diaz, be-
cause it is the symbol of the constitution of
81, under whose shade alone can be given
to the people of Mexico truly republican
government.
Viva la Constitution de 81!
Viva ell ciudadanO General POrfrio Diaz,
81 defensor!
Free suffrage and the Constitution
JUAN N. CORTINA.
Atzcapozalco, May Is, 1876.
A Brownsville dispatch of the nineteenth,
to the Galveston Neus, says:
From Mier yesterday came report,
which l believe is reliable, that MaraIj 10
had engaged Quiroga, near Marin. and de-
feated him badly, and while he was in re-
treat Trevino met him with 300 men and
completely routed him. One of Qui-
roga's officers escaped to Mier and
gave this report. 1t is also said that
Diaz is in possession or Monterey. Revuel-
tez was telegraphed yesterday that the
revolutionists were near Mier in cOnsidera-
BILE force, and contemplated blow some
where. had hoped to have learned more
to-day, but have not heard a word more;
may yet, before night
A dispatch from Rio Grande City, June
20, to the Galveston Neacs, says:
The latest advices confirm the reported
defeat of Quiroga. The federal forces have
evacuated Monterey, and that city is prob
ably now in possession of Diaz. Popular
feeling throughout the interior is growing
stronger against Lerdo. The government
pronunciados opened the mail from the
stage at CerralsO, but did not modest the
passengers. General Escobedo is said 20 be
at Saltillo, but the strength of his forces is
not known. Fuer0 is marching to San Luis
POt0ei.
Fresh car load of Lemp's st. Louis sum-
mer beer received at Ziegler's, No. l4a
Gravier street.