Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-06-27
PARAGUAY.
General Godoy 0yerthrows the Govern.
ment..Career OF the New Dictator--
Ten Years OF Paraguayan History.
N. Y. Herald, June II.

quay, came to an end, by the death oil
the Dictator Lopez, transfixed by Bra
lillian lance in the muddy bank of the
Eluidatan riven, there remained but a
few skeleton regiments TO represent the
10000 Paraguayan men and boys whom
he had impressed into the military SER
vice. A few thousand men. who had
been taken prisoners during the war,
constituted the main body Of nation
Of which nearly all the adult males had
persisted. OF the superior officers under
Lopez there were then but two generals
alive, the aged and incompetent Res
quin and the young Guarant Indian,
Bernardo Cabellero, whom Lopez had
advanced to that rank, less on account
Of his unquest:oned valor than through
the inhence OF his sister, the renowned
beauty of Carapegua, who had enjoyed
the distinction of being the latest of the
dictators numerous mistresscs.
OF the Six or eight remaining colonies
the most noted were German Serrano,
Matias Goyburu, Slvestre Aveiro, and
Julian Godoy, who had all been init.
mately connected with the frightful
cruelties participated by the Dictator
during the last two years of his life.
When once il was known that Lopez
was dead they We'd with each other in
denouncng his memory, but soon
showed by their conduct that they were
80 inapt followers Of his peculiar
methods Of administration. In the
general death Of men consequent up
on the determination Of the higher class
of Paraguayans the new government fell
into the hands of small number OF
"emigrados" OF political exiles who have
resided chiefly nj Buenos Ayres during
the war. The first government was n
triumvirate, formed Mt Asuncion under
Brazilian auspices, Aug. 10, 1869, while
Lopez was still wagng war in the north.
II consisted Of Carlos Loizaga, Jose
Dias do Bedoys, and Cirilo Antoine de
Rivarola, all "emigrados." On the 10th
Of December, 1870, Rivaroa was
elected president, and Cayo Miltos,
wealthy planter of Villa Conception,
vice president.
The military officers above named
swore allegiance to the now govern
ment and were intrusted with the chief
positions in the army. No long time,
however, elapsed before these mem
bers Of Lopezs staff began to conspire
against the government Of the "e1ti.
grados." Rvarola WAS overthrown with
in n twelvemonth, and the minister of
war, Salvador JoveIanos, the last repre-
sentative Of noted family, nearly re-
lated To the celebrated Spanish states.
man Of that name, was chosen prcsi-
dent for three years Dec. IL, 1871. IL
was believed by tho military officers
that Joyelanos, II young and compare
lively inexperienced man, would prove
plinblo instrument in their hands, but
this expectation was disappointed. In
march, 1872, Gen. Caballero headed IL
revolution in behalf of Candida Bareiro,
who had been Lopez's minister in Lon
don, and who, like Caballoro, owed his
promotion largely TO tho fact of having
had sister who was lavorite Of the
dictator. This attempt was failure,
since the Brazilian garrison mt Asuncion
gave its MD to the lettering govern
ment.
Two years later, however, II new revo-
luton proved successful, and juan
Bautsta Gill was designated as prcsi-
dent in October, 1874, IN n compromise
candidate, with Gen. Caballero as his
minister Of Justice and Serrano
M minister OF war. Gill was II
son of Don Andres Gill, who Ind
been chief minister of tho elder Lopez
and II nephew of Gen. Barrios, brother
in-law and war minister of tho young
Lopez who had been put to death in
1868 under circumstances Of extreme
barbarity. As the representative of the
most prominent Paraguayan family,
one which had suffered dire persecution
under Lopez, IL seemed that ho was
well fitted 10 mediate between the con-
tending factions, ho having been IL
member of the cabinet Of President
Rivarola. His government lasted for
little over two years, being disturbed by
more than ono revolution. In April,
1877, President Gill and one of his
brothers, who was his finance minister,
were assassinated in II public street of
Asuneion Ivy N band of conspirators,
headed by Col. Mathis Goyburu,
Don Higinio Uriare, the vice prcs-
dent, succeeded to office April II, 1877,
but tho mulderers of Gill were not pun
ished, and their party soon placed in
power. Don Candida Bareiro, before
mentioned as Lopez's minister to Lon
don. AS u concession to the "cmigra-
dos" Don Adolfo Saguier, son of n
French naturalist, who had been de-
tanned in Paraguay by Franca, WINS
made vicc.presidcnt. Ii will be remem.
bered that, on the last day Of 1873, ex-
President Rivaroia, who had been for
sometime in arms against Bareiro, and
had just before been amnestied, was Ms
sasinated in n street Of Asuncion under
circumstances very similar 10 the niur-
der of President Gill. Ills assassns
were not punished, and il was strongly
suspected that President Bnreiro had
conniyed nj his fate. Be this M il may,
Bareiro himself has now been over
thrown by Gen. Julian Godoy, rs m.
nounced this morning by cable dis
patch fr.m Rio Janeiro.
The new dictator of Paraguay is II
man Of nearly pure Indian blood, is
about 90 years Of age, and was one of
the favorite staff officers of Lopez, and
resembed him in appearance, being