Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-23

endeavor to cross the frontier to he
present at the wedding of King Alfonso
The Spanish Ambassador to France win
remain at his post during the wedding
to guard against any attempt on the
part of Isabella to be present.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
A press dispatch from Houston, Texas
dated Jan. 18th, says Gov. Hubbard has
written a three column letter to Presi.
dent Hayes on border affairs. He goes
into the details of the causes of Mexican
raids and gives history of the same for
the last twenty years, including Cortinas'
capture Of Brownsville in 1859. The
governors specific charges are first, il
has been predatory war I'd, that
custom house officials nave been muir.
dered, custom houses tak.ei ard robbed
post-offices robbed and burned, hundreds
of citizens killed and some tortured.
VIM. Mcmahon, for instance. had his
legs cut off and forced to walk on the
stumps. McMahon was burned while
in his own house within five miles of
Corpus Christi Women have been
made prisoners and subjected to treat
ment too horrible to mention. Sd. Mil
lions of dollars worth of property have
been taken from Texas owners and car
ried into Mexico. 4th. Mexico has
furnished an asylum for robbers. a
place of deposit for their stolen goods.
9th. The Mexican government has been
notified many times by ours of the ex-
istence of these evils, but she has not
restrained her citizens and she refuses
to permit us to break up the hostile
band which commit atrocities and has
declared an attempt to do so cause for
war. 9th. She has refused to execute
the extradition treaty by not surrender
ing raiders who were themselves enc
mics of mankind by breaking the Jail
OF Starr county and releasing
prisoners therefrom. 9TH. She has
afforded an asylum to Indians and
permitted them to use her territory to
set on foot expeditions to invade the
territory of the U. S. and to wage savage
warfare upon the people Of Texas, in
Guiding within It's scope every age and
sex. Children have been captured in
Texas, carried into Mexico and held as
slaves. Gov. Hubbard asserts that
Texas does not want war but simply
protection from Mexican violence. He
charged that the San Elizario mob
who shot Howard, Mcbride, and Alker-
son to death, was composed largely of
Mexican citizens. The governor recites
the horrible massacre and says Mexico
should make amends for the crimes
committed by her citizens.
RELEASED FENIANS
A Dublin telegram of Jan. 14th saws
the Fenian prisoners recently released,
arrived here tonight, and were greeted
by torch light procession. From Is to
10000 people witnessed the reception
and twenty national bands took part in
the procession.
THE BUSTED CHARTER OAK
A Hartford, Connecticut dispatch of
the 18th says the insurance commits
sioner this morning made application
for the appointment of q receiver for
the Charter Oak Life Insurance COM
pany and temporary injunction. The
judge granted the injunction, and Or
dered the officers into court Monday
next to show cause, if any, why the ap-
plication should not be granted.
CONSTITUTING THE RESUMPTION ACT.
A special from Washington of the
18th inst, says bill was introduced to-
day by MIR. Lapp, of Iowa to give con-
struction to the specie resumption act,
declares that it does not authorize the
cancellation of legal tender notes out
standing or redeemed on and after Jan.
l, 1879, but requires them to be paid
out again as legal tenders. The bill al
SO proposes expressly to prohibit the
secretary of the treasury from destroy
ing said notes so as to reduce their total
amount below $780, 100000 it being de-
clarcd to be the intent of the bill to
provide for the continuance of that
amount as part of the circulating medi-
UNI of the United States.