American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-04-15
The Mexican Revolution.

/ General Poririo Diaz, the revolution
ary leader who. has seized Matamoras
and appears to be making such head
way against the Mexican Government,
is well known in the political and mill
tary history of that republic. He was
regarded as the. hero against the em-
pire, and it was he who besieged and
captured the City of Mexico from the
Austrians, Belgians, and Mexican ad-f
herents of Maximilian who held out af-
ter the fall of Queretaro. He was
candidate against Juarez in 1867, and
again in 1871. In the latter election he
claimed to have received a plurality of
votes, but Congress decided against
him, and hi, appealed to arms and or
ganized a serious revolution. Juarez.
died in 1872, and, Lerdo, then Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, succeed
ed him as President ad interim. A gen.
seral amnesty was issued, and Dfaz laid.
down his arms. In the regular election
for President which followed Lerdowas
elected without opposition, Diaz de-
,clining to become a candidate against
him. But the administration of Lerdo
has not been popular, and for some
time it has been evident that revolu-
ton was inevitable. The first limitations
came from the State of Michoacan, but
they were not of a character to excite
alarm. Q TIVE or three months since
however, programme was proclaimed
from the town Of Trextepec, in Oaxaca.
which declared in favor of the Constitu-
ton of 1857, repudiatedi the present
Government entirely, and pronounced
in favor of Diaz as 81 General-in-chief of
the regenerating armies" The plan
was approved by the mountain towns,
force gathered, and the capital of the
State captured. From that day to this,
though suffering defeat now and then at
the hands of the Government troops
the revolutionists have been gaining
Myth. 1t seems that large proper
ton of the distinguished soldiers of the
republic are engaged in the rebellion,
either as adherents of Diaz, or, like Gen.
eral Rocha, on their own account
Though these gentlemen may disagree
after the War shall be over, and par
ticularly if they succeed in their under
taking, they are one now,
and are agreed in the attempt to GUST
Lerdo and the present Government. 1t
is claimed by the friends of President
Lerdo that the uprising has been brought
about by the restless and dissatisfied
spirits who are never content until a
conflict of some kind is raging, and
there is undoubtedly great deal of
truth in this. Nevertheless, it is as
serted that foreign residents, as a rule,
sympathize with the rebels; and,
though there may be other reasons for |
this, it is likely they see valid cause
for much dissatisfaction. The forces
of the contending parties are, so far,
about equal; but the Government troops
are far better drilled and armed than
their opponents. However, the whole |
sale assertions of the former to the |
revolutionists show that many of them
can not be relied upon. Events indi-
cate that Mexico has entered upon an
other bloody and disheartening revolu-
ton, and that the strong hopes enter
tanned of her becoming stable and
peaceful republic are about to be de-
stroyed.-C Chicago Inter Ocean.
ACCORDING to French stats tician.
taking the mean of many accounts, a
man of fifty years of age has slept 5000
days, worked $500 days, walked 800
days, amused himself 1000 days, was
eating 1,5O0, was sick 500 days, etc.
He has eaten 1000 pounds of bread,
pounds of meat, 1900 pounds of
eggs and fish, and drank
z 900 gallons of liquid, viz: water, cot
fee, tea, beer, wine, etc., altogetherf
This would make a respectable lake of
800 square feet surface and three feet
deep, on which small steamboats, could
navigate. And all this makes up the
routine of an average mans life.
THE troop ship Himalaya, the largest
IN the British navy, has been sent to
to bring home the. numerous
horsss. tigers and elephants presented
% the Prince of Wales during his re-