The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1867, Page 3

(¥ NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY, possession of the whole of the tmperia! lives from the resid troops ab bis apron and shouting “Ven % disposed so tameiy the regiment of cho im the Calle de Capue: the eity—he forme detend himself W uh siruck Maramon ia the eye, binding bim for the timo beiny. It is said that Maximilian, weakened and prostraied ashe has beeu since the surrender by dysentery, wept like a child when ho heard of the heroic exertions thus made on his behalf, Tho Hungarian hussars and the oter forcign troops of the late imperial army, wore distributed in various parts of the town, Poor i#!lows! Lshalt not soon for, wey Wore On their laces aw they were mi the siree! On [908 trons ba ote Campagna whore tuoy ivad surreusered. It eo, MEXICO. om he encoun'ered 2 broadest streets Je and prepared ud Give shots bred i under the jefe A citizen sur- Mas—oue of them in line of last, One of @ and lod Special Correspondence of the Ho ral! 8 from Maximilian’s Headquarters. goon, whose house was near, aitompted to extract the | stony, upward gaze one notices ou the countenance of & ballet, but in the exchkement of the moment only made | crimival led out for @ ‘tion. =D ese matters worse, and before sluramon could receverhim- | they expected to be ther fate. many of ue and his whole too) We: surrounded and taken | were personaly kuown to me ax brave soldiers, and prisoners, spams fee pi uf 4 guard in a house ry fo gormtevny men. Heaven send them a better ry 2 im the street ia whic! je Was Cuptared, fate! be yexican rauk and file were ckly disposed Scenes and Incidents of the BURRKXDER OP MAXIILIAN, ot. Inustered iuto.the liberal army, If whey Meanwhile Maximilian had been joined at the Cerro de tn Campada, or Beli Height—a fortiled hilt commanding the other exiremity of the «ity—by Generais Xejia, Cas- ullo and Avellano, and Prince his officers, but it'was quickly © escape was equally impossible. tight haif as well for tne liberals as some six hundred liberal prisoners did for the imperiatiais during the siege, they will do good service. It was not without a secret sense of satisiaction | saw the much overrated Emperairiz regiment marched down to the Alameda to be divested of the handsome uniform they laiterly have never honored, “Form in line, twodeep,” “Sit down,” “strip,” were the words of command, aad in three wi utes six hundred aaked Mexicans wero scorching int suo, The kepis were given to one liberal regiment, tl jackets to another, and the pants toa third. The crest- fallen Emperatriz troops thea attired themselves in the ragged, cast-off garments of their fuiure companions. It was all intensely comical. “Swapping lice,” a friend called it, with more truth (lan clegaace, Siege of Queretaro. jeut that resistance or Fonr battalions of in- fapiry and peariy the whole of the l:berat cavalry sur- rounded the nilt, A large white fiag (at the distance it looked like a shirt) was accordingly sent down from the Grapiie Account of the Betrayal and Oceu- pation of that City. Cerro, and the Eunperor, with bis principal oflicers, surret dered’ unconditionally to General Corona, They we: allowed to retain their borses, arms and personal pro- perty, and later in the day were marched round by the outekirts of the city 10 the Cruz. The bussars and the ‘The American Lesion Plotting to Save | Sune, ns utheu tresioet nSoves samt Colonel Campos, a Mexican officer commanding the Ewperor's escort, alone endeavored to escape, Mounted ob @ magnificent gray steed, a six shooter jn each band ‘and $4,000 in his bet, he dashed down the mountain side and tried to break through the liberal cavairy. Impossible as the atiemp: was, it seemed for the mo- ment as if it would succeed. His horse stood at nothing, but jumped ditches, barr and earthworks with equal ease, Hailled and 1 1d at one point, Campos ‘The following special correspontemes feem the head- peso gett ae Fosyed dead spe major who at- qvartera of Maximilian will be read with imtenss imie- “sp Stop him and wounded several other met west, as it gives a graphic account of the evexts that im- Finally he was himself wounded and captured. The game day he was svot by order of mediaiely preceded and accompanied the fall of the SCENES IN THR CITy, Prince's emp ire, < Long betore this the entire city had been occupied by i the lveral troops. ‘Those who first entered as a matter of course took to pillaging and robbing, but afterwards the strictest discipline was maintained and thero was less violence than has often accompanied similar occur- rences in the United States, till, the duties of a special correspondent, determined to see for himself all that took place, as the only possible means of getting at the truth, were not by avy means asinecure, Among other littie adventures the present wr ter was chased and fired upon San Luis Poros:, May 30, 1867—3 A. M. ‘The excitement in this city, the present seat of the government, respecting the disposition of the prisoners is intense, Tt is known that a secret court martial for the trial of the Emperor and Generals Miramon and Mejia has been in session for the last throe days, and that the verdiet will probably be given in to-morrow. I have sent you full particulars by telegraph via New Orleans. ‘The strongest pressure is being brought to bear on the Proaident and cabinet by the ultra liberals and by Gene- ral Escobedo himself to order the immediate shooting of the Emperor, if only to show those Yankees that their sympathy is not of so much value to Mexico as they sup- pose, Foreign merchants look gloomy and regard the probable execution of Maximilian as a pr’lude toa war, either with the United States or some European Power. The purchased capture of Querétaro has driven the ‘eans pearly crazy, and the best informed amoi them talk in the wildest in of the might and invinci- bility of their armies. It critical moment, My own belief is that the President will temporize, to gain time, and come to no decision at present, one way or ihe The Plans and Intentions of the Emperor. THE FALL OF QUERETARO. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The Convent of La Santa Cruz—Its Strength and Importance—Its Garrison and Bosi: ers—The Treason of Lopez—Its Co: mane | by the first squad of Siberai cavalry Uhat entered the eity. Pee fi an) scaping from them, he ran into the midst of another een? Mi cimilinn was Asleep oNeble | troop, who tock him prisoner and wanifested an amiable DURING THE SIEGE. 7 intention of shooting him fora Frenchman; and finally nel—He Refuses to Take Maximilian Pri+ | the close of the day found him rovbed of horse and soner—The Emperor Surrenders to Corot money and somewhat exercised as to further conse- | How the Bi zed Fared—Getting Couriers Mis Body Guard Surrender to the American Legion—Bravery of Colone! Campos—! im the City—Adventures of the Hern’ - Fee ondent—Hetniis of the Executtey of Men- jez—The American Legion—Their Genovous Wish and Stratagem to Save Maximilian. Quenerano, May 20, 1867. By way of Mazatian and telegraph from San Francisco, by way of Tampico and steamer to New Orleans, by Way of the Rio Grande and by way of Mexico and Vera Cruz, quences, Fortunately all was made right except the loss of horse, equipments and money. These General Recba told “him he might recover if he could find them, The majority of the liberal forces were kept ont at the camps. Escovedo and Corona atill retalatng their headquarters outside the city.’ The troops wore moved {ff bya ce thousands Sta time, and then were marched 01 fexico, Jalisco, San Luis Potosi or other points, while other forces caine in to tko their places, As night fell dozens of closely draped ladie*, escorted by their brothers and husbands, were seen Uimidiy burrying home. They had expected a general sack and pillage, and bad been hiding in some Through the Liberal Lines=Maximilian the Soul of the Defence—A Speech and Confession from the Emperor—French Life—Sufferings of Queretare. Queretaro, May 17, 1867, The evente of the last few hours will not have de- prived the subjoined letters of their interest. It is against all newspaper rules, and especially against the rales of the New York Hzratp, to publish matter which by Japse of time might long since have been pro- Thave endeavored to get to you some dotuils of the last | of those secret chambers with whion rat oe batter class | Bounced “dead,” But the circumstances are excep- iy of Mexican houses fnquisi inde of musig be- | tional, and 1g the character of the uarrative, It Moenes of the siege of Queritaro. Tho reads arein | Mexican houses Reg. nt se 18 th {menis, who were well supplied in this respect, the imperialists haa not a single band, played in the street, giving the city not possivle that the subjoined despatches should bavé seen the light betore. such a chaotic state and the uncertainties of communi- cation are so great that perhaps I had better treat all Each of them represents a dozen these communications as if they had never boon received | SimOst festive appearance—almost, but not quite. | fare attempts to pass the liberal tines; each einctly and clearly as may be the things that occurred | are entirely arrauged by the priests and the prefecta. | gle against starvation which for seventy long But in the market there was genuine hilarity. The rush of fruit and vegetebles and corn and meat upon the famine stricken pulation was bewilder- ing in its snddennosa, m the camps out- side uncouth, strangely costumed women, riding straddle back’ upon raw-boned horses, came in with goodly potations of mezéal, of aguardienle and flery catalan, Fe cents any one 20 disposed might » and many availed themselves of days the garrison of Querétaro maintained, Written on the days they are dated, they have the freshness of re- cent impressions to recommend them, aud present in a curious light the peculiarities of Mexican warfare, These peculiaritios will be an interesting topic to study, for moat assuredly the siege of Querotaro, and its sin- gular ending have hastened the day when United states en the eventful 15th of May, and that havo taken place since, The present despatches I shall bear myself to San Luis Potosi, and, robbers permitting, sball not leave ‘them till they are in a safe way of being transmitted to New York. TSE CONVENT OF LA CRUZ, or Santa Cruz, has of necessity been often mentioned in Connection with the siege. In a letier de- page ce cay eciea Bo disorder, and good | troops will play a part in similar dramas, Already the Spatched to you on the 4th of April last | dark side to the picture, as when is thera not? Ugly | victors, puffad up with the pride of the ty on the & fall description of this building was given. {The letter bas not yet reached here.—Evitor Herato.} Ttis one of those strange edifices one-quarter church ‘gad three-quarters fort, of immense size and propor- ‘Monate strength, which the original Spanish conquerors employed their sorplus dollarsin building. Probably ‘i much within the mark to say that the Convent of the Cruz and its outworks cover ten or fitieen acres of ground. If the liberals are wise one of the first uscs they will make of their unexpected victory here will be to level the Cruz with the ground, and employ the materials jm rebuilding the thousand or two dwelling houses ‘which have been ruined in other parts of the city. Stanaing as it does on the brow of a hill commanding ‘the city and the road to Mexico, the Cruz is a perpotual temptation to revolution. Avy lawless chicttan who @an get together a few hundred guerilleros may seize the Crus, lay as many forced loans as he wants upon Quer- rumors were afloat of volleys of musketry heard at in- tervals during the day in houses known to contain pris- oners, aud it was whispered that none of the French- caughta gimpes ot «muted. gure speaking slong in caught @ glim| a mui gure in the’ wget a glance—for three months’ wheel of the chariot, are boasting, “‘We have whipped ‘the French out of Mexico; we have whipped the Ger- mans, and now we will whip the Yankees.’? Heavqvarrers, Iurseia, Aawy, ee } ae We have and Still beleaguered in this unbappy city. reached the forty-eighth day o: the sieg the thirty-fourth day since Marquez started for Mexico to bring reinforcements; yet there is little or no change in our actual positions, and nothing to break the biank monotony of @ lifeless Sister Anne is. sent up to the honsetop fifty times a day to look for the opens relief, butas yet bas not even discovered » flock of sheep (which, by the way, would be very welcome to us under existing circumstances); so the sword of Bluebeard remains suspeuded over the neck of the de- voted Fatima, aod the six big brothers fail to coine to her assistance, We have all sorts of rumors as to Mar- whereabouts, but no reliabie data. The move- ts of the enemy, who to-day send a force in this ‘@taro ana start a little war on his own account. 1 ao ne eee teres ws poses oa eet relate ait cane ay speculate on re; Ee Sr | Pee, eee SM, wepOeR., WEE fo thas if we hear nothing o¢ Marques within the next erder any such demolition. They = thri ‘too well upon anarchy and revolution to seek to put end to them. At no very distant day some liberal chief- ‘tain will be in possession of the Convent, defending bim- pene Blew ml in pursuit wolf against the troops of Presideat Juarex, Churches the surely tghtest—under fre from to night, Dave been the bane of Mexico in more senses than one, | turing him, On’ Friday, the day alter the with the pleasant alternatives before us of being starved to death, of seeing the city carried by storm sacked, or of cutting our way turough a foree numericaliy four times our superior. 4 DAY IN QUERETARO, of our fives from day to day” ts a simple or the town, cers of the imperial army who did not surrender within tweaty- four hours would be summarily disposed of when cap- tured, On Saturday evening, between eight and nine “ o’clock, Mendez was found concealed under the floor in ‘and will continue to be so till all these church forts are Jaid m the dust. La Cruz, forming the key to the city, many lives have ‘Deen lost in attacking and defending it. Maximilian bad ‘8001 Soe bis headquarters pres bulidi 7 testis bis inthe | tbe Bouse of acitizen named Bartoli. Then he knew Seven rere or Maeantnand loons Paes eee ing; a his doom was sealed, He occupied the night in writi meal and Chile pepper boiled ina corn shuck. Wonder mountain of Carretas, immediately opposite. Escobedo's | Ictters to hisfamily. Next morning, between nino ant bow they would ‘ake’ introduced ino Fultom Market. ten o” —pleasant scene fora bright Sunday morn- | fon, peed was marched down to the Alameda and shot. | custom: met his fate without a sign of fear, According any 0 what are called trat- | jgagues off, with «twelve thousand troops and imany 4 will be here in a day or two. Many agai foreign it, declaring that ho was no traitor to his country, and | thanks, Nine A'h.—Go out intnesireet. Shells aad og not —— to face Pras but the officer in charge of | bullets much too numerous to bo healthy. The liberals @ shooting party declared that his orders were ex- | hombard tho city every morning aod night. Go back plicit on the point. “Very well,” said Menuez, “shoot again, Eleven A. M.—Breakfast. Horseflesh, muie- away. He knelt down, bp Footed the regiment, | tiesh, beans and coffee. Two P. M.—Iude round the lines, From nervous- | sxiriisiers iaboriously biazing away at each other ery bad, amd | gt six handrod yards, aud never hitting anybody— the wrotched man was nothing like fatally wounded. | Sousing more. Five P. M-—-Wonder again if there 1s 20y Raising himself up he pointed to bis head (previous | news from Marquez. Goto headquariers and uek, Yer bs yoiewrne etl Mary Hage sie dhe fp agp omer gto WE TO between Morico and Paciia, and is uaable 13 _— iat Wr ang se to muzzle of the | jeave at present because Portirie Diaz is threateuiog co is oar Out bis brains. So died Ramon | porh cities, Many thanke Seveo #, M.—cupper; muic- ndez, than whom Mexico has produced many better | sogy, horseflesh and somethi Pf . ing else, which may be and many worse men An Indian, with much pork, but looks like dog, aad coffee. i Biebe P. M. Bs of the Indian cruelty and indifference to lite | bardment. ‘it on tue balcony und watch the sue! e ee eaceee = large sbare | way of gratuitous pyrotechoic entertainment, p Bion 4 ag TreNing, Meese rece many | Pp. M.—Ask tor the third time what news of Marquez, oppor ln oe ie cow frauduleatiy he re- | iy is in the mountains close at hand, bat has only a Fea ee te ey eee and was true vo the cause | small force and cannot got turough, aa ‘the liberals tiold sta clugtlar little conversation, wbich recurs temen, | Sitthe passes. Many thanks, (ood might. Half-past ory. Said a German officer, ¢*Woll, I bave becn a sol. | ie ¥. M.—Hed and inuainerable bedfellows dier many years, but this w the tightest place I have deen in yet.” “Gh!” replied Mendez, “I havedeon in a much tighter place than and got cut all right; but if, we are defeated here I snail bave to fly the country.” “Why? “Because I have shot a coupie of liveral gone- rails.” It closed the conversation with alook on his face which seemed to say, “and now I wish I hadn't.” AMERICAN THR LEGION, Gen. Corona left for Mexico with all his forces, Prac cavalry, who returned to Jalisco, Corona Dest infantry—the Supremos Poderes, or “supreme power” battalion—occupied the valley between the convent and the mountain. Maximilian’s best infantry, ‘the first battalion of the line, were stationed in the con- vent. ink I should like to be there wheu the first jod one, Eigut A. M.—Inquire if there is of Marquez. Yes, he is at Celaya, a fow CROSS PURPOSES, On the nightof the l4th of May acurious game of ‘cross purposes was played. Reduced to the last tremity by starvation, with no corn for his cavalry and ‘Bo food for the people but the flesh of horses, mules and @ogs, Maximilian had determined to attack the enemy ‘and cut bis way through their lines, What I have ween since convinces me he could have done it, At eleven o'clock at night troops were under arms in ‘the city, artillery moved up, and everything in train for ‘the sortie, The night was especially favorable for the Purpose—stormy and dark, with only occasional glimpses of moonlight, just enough to enable one to seo without Deimg seon. At the same moment Escobedo, prossed by Juarez to bring the siege to a close, anti fiercely taunted Dy Corona for his eupineness and want of energy, had Tesolved to abandon his laisses faire policy of starving ut, and to attack the Cruz at daybreak. Bogus Drought in by supposed deserters and the unreadiness of wome of his generajs caused Maximilian to postpone his Plan; Escobedo’s project was deferred for more weighty reasons, COURIER AND WOW THRY FARE. That we bave no authentic news of Marquez is one of the ineonvemiesces of the vortion woick the liberal forces have drawa round the city. Among other re- sults of the same blockade may be included the neces- sity we have beon under for the last two or three wooke of eating horses and mules, persuading oursolves that when dead of sonti-starvation they inake excellent beef, and also the utter absence from our tables of ai thing iv the shape of bread, fruit or vegetables—so ne- ‘TREASON IN THE CAMP. The Crus had been sold. Tho betrayer was one who | Was accompanied by his “Legion of Honor,” acavalry | Coxsary in a climate like this. As for communication corps of forty-six Americans, all oiticors, wh: with the outaide world, a sardine i box has about stood high inthe Emperor's confidence and profested | fouynt thelr way wlth him from Mazatian bere, ‘strange | a8 much chance of making his wishes Known as we. for him the warmest personal regard. Traitors there | feliows, some of them are, aud very inuch ingthe rough, | There are six thousand dollars ready for any one who can got « letter through to Marquez and bring back an anawer. Many bave tried, but uone have yet returned to claiin the promised reward. Oue of these aspirants ‘was discovered the other morning heaging just outside our lines with a big placard across his breast:— antrersasporcovece lvansttbedpe crit | CounneR Pho MARQUEZ. cohetbcoroegmrteenap herve vip NOY Hg fate has probably bean that of many of his com- ea. Elaborate sham attacks have been made on our side ‘and tifty or sixty lives sacrificed, simpiy to get » letter through the liberal tines. On the 11th April, Prince Salm- Salm, with four or Ave hundred mea, attacked a strong et near the Garth of Le = aan _ ig to get & Message throug! ve couriers with him, diaguised, each With bis despatea rolied up in ter amaion Saree and enclosed in sealin; wax, so that It could be swallowed if necessary. Two the couriers succeeded in running the blockade, but nothing has since been heard of them. Avain, on the 11th, under the cover of a feigned attack on the enemy's positien im front of the Alamnoda, a party ot four officers and seventy cavalry cut their way through with do. spatches for Mexicd, Nothing more has beep heard of this party wither. my own couriere have fared better I do not know, I have some slight reason to hope they have, since no longer ago than yesterday Maxi- milian sent me a letter tor Vienna, with a request that if | could I woud get it conveyed to Mexico wit my despatches, he at the same time assuring me that tho loiter, which was wu feferred solely to his do- moatic affairs and cou Id pet compromise me. as Californians are apt to bo, but splendid fignters.every one. Good stores are told about them in camp, A Mexican came to Gen. Syivester Aranda when they were ‘in bis command and complained that one of these 4 meri- cans had been guiity of some sight act of weakness— stealing a bianket, I think it was. “Weil,” answered tim arrested. replied the omnat of Une mlasing.aarape 1mm ar * rej the owner mi ‘ “Arrested!” exclaimed Aranda, ‘‘my dear sir, I would arrest the whole d—d corps if J could, but we have not men enouzh in the army to do it.’ Whea Miramon gaioed bis victery at Zacatecas the liberal retreat was covered by the Americans, Miramon said afterwards that hesitated whether he should Bear a is victory or jot, but he judged from the accuracy of the firing that the Americans were covering the retreat, and concluded he had better not. Colonel George M. Green commands this eccentric corpa, and the priucipal members are tains M. G. Grover, W. H. McNulty, C. E. Adams, H, Flynn, F. Betion, k, Lever and Hf W. Fritz; Lieutonaats D. Hubbell, George Proudfoot, George Low, C. A Kirker, T. P. Carter, John Boberta, Rudolie Reginge, George W. Biawsdelt and J. M. Blake. Tho last two were taken pri- soners early in the sioge, but are now ef coures at liberty again. One of the legion told me that while lying in front of Queritaro they had often talked over the pro- bable fate of Maximilian with warm regret, and de. vied many wild schemes of getting him out to their camp, cutting off his beard, disguising him and smug- cling bim away. Perbaps there is wo berm now In say- hat I know they did something similar with one or two of Maximilian’s foreign soldiers, ‘wore known to be in the city, but mo one suspected Cotone! Lopez of treason. If such a suspicion had been entertained one glance at his portly, handsome persona, bis jovial face, with not a trace of the Mexican about it, Dat rather the look of an aristocratic Anglo-Saxon, would have repeliod the idea. Unlimited trust had been re- posed in him. He was first made colonel of the Empera- tziz regimen!—a regiment which, on toe frontier, earned @ splendid reputation, but which, during the siege of Querétaro,§ has made Qut one charge, and then got ‘whipped like a pack of curs, Next, when a reserve brigade was formed for the especial tion of the Emperor, Colovel Lopez was “wit iversal arsent to the cominand, and latterly he bad been trans. forred to the still more important post of Commander of ‘the Cruz Yet it was Cotonet Lopez, and none otver, who Detrayed the te tothe enemy. Just whom the liberal Commeander-in-Chief had given his orders for attack ‘Lopez set him a letter for money~variously stated at sums ranging from to three thousand jees—to deliver up the Cruz to the Hberals, The offer, whatever it might was promptly accepted. ‘Under cover of the darkness aod Vorovua moved their forces up onder the vory walla of the (raz Then night d by liberal soldiers, waximilian piacidiy sieep- ‘ag and dreaming of no harm, How the Prisoners Fare=The Heroism of TRE DIFCOVERY, o With tho first faint ‘neeak of daylight came the dis- the Princess Saim-Salm=The Coremony of In these trving times has astonished Emperor, an incorrigible early riser, was Stripping a Ri everybody. Tapley himself could not come out first to find out something was wrong. Quenerano, May 25, 1867, stronger under difficulties, bes been the life and soul of the defence. have been surrendered hopeful, brave even to But for hia tue city would ago, Always cheerful and end nt ander the ing Prince Saim-Salm, he exclaimed, “Come ick!” and made for the door, But here a file From the Cruz tho Emperor and his officers were of beral folders, commanded by Culonel Rincon oe removed to the convent of Santa Toriaita, and assigned Yardo—or “Pepe Rincon,” as be is called—were to quarters neither coo! nor comfortable, They slept on | Ost adverse ciroumstances, he bas extorted the admira- him, As Pri on bis wa tion even of bis enemies. Few of tis generals re by ‘ poo renege cl Maclaimed, “Thats | ‘B® bare floor, and for a day oF two were but poorly | oy thelr lives eo f none fare 0 poor! be,” an ‘at once, Then | *upplied with food. The advent of Madame Salm-Salm occurred one of the most singular incidents in the whole | and ber intercession with Excobedo obtained them better of this singaiar war, Colonel Rincon, a brave soldier, accommodation. They were removed to another and Would have rejoiced to have captured the Austrian Archduke in a far fight; but he hal litte relish for bis | more com: us convent—that of La Capuchina—and ss or for the treason that had brought ivabout. | their fri were allowed to send them wines, pro- ye ae cana sets npalse of gencrosity, he went | visions and clothing. The adventures of this Indy would form @ strange chapter of romance. She was twice fired on when passing the fines at the city of Mexico under @ flag of truce, She was held prisoner for two days in Guadaldupe by Genoral Diaz for distributing money among the Austrian prisoners at Chapultepec, and fully received « passport, or rather an order, to quit the country for an Kurope. pm mre eres ofp ia Se "Corona, always Querétaro and San Luis, during the siege of the former sete a sown, attended only by a little Mexican mat servant, still Woking atterty foot as hard as he could other extremity of me; but while T ean cnt 1 will not run awe * Pao most tatanet: friend aed counsellor of th r 7 is now Prince Saim-saim, who, since the depyr ure of Margae, Ls viriuatly boon pis Chief of ri, thoaxh General Casiilio, a conurmed ivalid, Domiualy hows that position to save appearauces, Max's Icom: is $500 day, but out of (ais be p = ‘Phe balun eonal expenditure afer these expeasss uave been wet tg about $11. Who sould not be au emperor? He sel- dom passes a beggar in the street, and never a wounded man without giving bim a dollar. ‘Phis generosity disposiGon indved ts carried almost to excess, When Prince Saitu-Sain made the attack on the hacienda, of which I bave aiready spoken; another object he bad in Passage of the couriers, was to capture ih wneral Martines, who was lying slot through tbe shouder in a jul mear by, and to hold bim as a bostage in case it camo to the worst. The Kwperor, however, gave the strictest insiructions that if 1t would soem like baroar- ity to bring the prisoner he was to be Jeft behind. Tho liberal work: re so strong, and the aiucking force go || woak, tbat they never reached the hospital at all. But they made some pri: among them several soldiers who bad deserted from the imperial army, carrying over valuable information to the elemy. Every one else was in favor of shooting them, but the Emperor stubboroly refused, ‘1 wili have no execu- tion,” be said, “even though I know the mep to be If things go well good; if badly, I have on my conscience,” this is vory chivalric, but nm whether it is the way to deal suoceafuliy with people, Those of their own nation, who know them best, act far differently, tude and a) mn to Mexicans. tion. of genarecthy are not can only be inthe barsh grip of an ogre. Rake gare would be therer7: best governor the country ve, ‘MAX'S DYING SPRECH AND CONFESSION. ‘The 10th of April wasthe third anniversary of Maxi- milian’s acceptance of the crown of Mexico. With the exception of a few salutes and a host of decorations and motions, the day passed comparatively uacelebrated. eretaro 18 not just now fit condition for festivity. Minister Aguirre, however, the oniy meraber of the im- perial cabinet now here, waited upon the Emperor with ‘an address purporting to emanate from the citizens, Maximilian returned a reply both plucky and candid. In case you should not have receivod it through the me- dium of your correspondent at the liberal headquarters I subjoip a full translation:— I am surrounded by every species of peril, and by the pa a pee aye fg mer eatin apy pla Pleasure ae tbe faithfal representatives of the moral and jonest part of the nation, and of our valiant and long suf- fering army, Ca which I enter on the fourth ear reign, Three of arduous labor, of great Iidlculues, tare Xifendy ono fruit has’ resulted from this arduous period, in that I am able to demonstrate to ay feliow citizens the consistency, the honesty and the loyalty of the intentions of my government. The day of the sccoplation of my actual position pressed upon, me sponte- fant paternal shores, I vowed to conse. erate myself to the defence of the integrity and independ. ence of my new country, and of what in my opinion was for her benefit, For thren years subsequently I have had to struggle painfully against influences. hurt. ful to our country; but powerful and Cer ee gied with and triumphed over at last, so that not one blot Yematina upon our glorious national have been able ‘Yo combat with constancy and faith, because I the strength of my rights and the foundation of my legality by the innumerable acts which, transmitted to Miramar by worthy sons of the nation, affirm and reaffirm iu these his- torical docurnents of the great majority of the Mexicans my tnission as their chief. At the moment ot the evacuation of our territory by the foreignera, when one of my most sacred tqsks—tha' of watching over ‘the integrity of our country und protecting her threateved independence—was com. Plsted, I bolloved that my fucther remaining at the head of the pation would be an ghangle.. ave called si pe, in Gukeqaence of thla doubt, a eg council, composed by care of men of ali parties and of the most pronoun: litteal colors, for to place in their hands, and on oir respousibility of a free and frank decision on this question, so delicate and important for my consclenes. The opinion Of the council prompt and almost unanimous ricoming on my part to abandon, Nad called me, T conasq a second time to the arduous task, which obs! rable reader more dificult every day; but, at the xame time, ielding to my most cherished aud imnermost poets y ‘be. ‘ore leaving Orizaba to return to the capital Ieonvoked the ustae wih as gy sg Rite wo submit ess to He vefare them, ao, ane acls, ju, and proposing to lay uments and accounts of my iment, wi vf the cure worlt., You, sire, now why that O ngrese be 5 Mo a fully orgaatzed according gg ae ae a willing (o submit to the national will. The truth (a, thai eady become historical rendered W aif for thom 10 pase: before a free and Gutauties ‘and our tak are now ia comegnease of this mor6 clear. We nave to defend onr 0 well as our I a tore to the nation that trated absolute terroriem exerted. by the col of revolution. On ot J6th. September, 1365, [ said to dt is now Metican; u irop of m: A oar dear count liberty, to_rest a dignt ‘hich hat long bee: dedi a aetins Crate eerie Sober S every and if ahould permit new Is to menace your ranks for her independe: Saag Hoos ‘who ‘surround me in the dificul- 4 in AS that {| bave record, I said, “That no buman icine. ne poll u ‘tion, no last. tat od i oT emg dne in etruggic the vote Ube a me to carry on, and aotwithstanding all the diffi. ities I would got falter in my duties, since it was not in the moment of danger that a true Hapsdurg wen abandou his post.” and here 1 am, struggling cheerful ‘bY your fide. Let us continas to Navewtee ar determination on aud God will recompense our eJorts, viug We ae Our Teward ihe poace and livery of our country. our a. alwa) nd of ull cerasions be the n- aE, et ve le pens ie att. k acopy of which was suosequently captured by our forces, expressly prohibits any terms being made for the surrender of Quorctaro, of the Emperor, or of aay of his generals, All wore to be put to the swor So the siege has gone on, the soidiers enduring, with- outa murmur, discomforts and hardships which woald drive any other army to mutiny, but which to them, dragged up tn lth from childhood, seldom wasbing themselves from one year to another, accustomed to jook upon a paving stone and a blanket as a very com- Tortable ved, and not in the slightest degree particular es to the character of the food they eat so loug as there as plenty of it, are scarcoly discomforts at ail, The readiness with which these Mexicans adapt themselves to cireumstances is often bighly amusing. On the hao of the Cusa Blanca the men in the trenches have each dug a sori of cave beside him for his woman, where, sheltered from the sun and the bullets, she keeps him i company while on duty, cooks his dinner, rolls his cigarews, filing ap odd moments by catching such surplus vermin as chance to come in her either on her own person or that of Jord and master. But not unfrequently these women fail victims io their conjugal devotion. At this same Casa Bianca l saw a woman shot throagh the breast, one aud the same bullet killing both herself and the ebild slung at ber back, At the bridge women wero killed at once by the explosion of asbell. Yet, any day you may see hundreds of women walking about ander lire with all the indifference of veteran ers, When speaking of couriers I might have mentioned a Jndicrous iucident whicn occurred on the night of the F Acourer had been despatched by the liberal Commander ia-Chief, to Regules, one of the liberal generai-, with orders. Op the road the man treely Of the cheap ardent spirits of the country (which ont- wide the city muet be pleniiful enough, but here we have none left), and mistaking bis way rode up to our lines. “Quien vive,” cuatteoged the sentinel. “Libertad,"’ anewered the courier, giving the liberal watchword, “What regiment?” asked the sentinel, “Fourth Light cavalry,” the ian replied, “All right, pass,”’ said the picket. On coming within the line the hapiess courier ‘was at once conducted to General Mendez. <‘General,”’ remarked his captor, ‘I bring you an enemy.” “En- omy |" interrupted the indignant courier, who yet had ot discovered bis mistake; “‘euomy! why | am as trae & ideral as over lived.” ‘Do you know whe commands at the Cusa Blauca?’’ Mendez inquired. “You ; that (Spanish oath) Jndtan (Spanish osth) Mendez.’’ you ever seen him?” ‘Seen bum! No, He always Tons away #0 fast we never can get @ look athim.”’ ‘Take caro,” remarked an officer standing by, “you are in General Mendez’s headquarters.’ I'm not,” retorted the man, now partially sebered, “‘or he'd have shot me before thia.”’ *'Well, sir, Lam Gen- eral Mendez,’ said the General, rising from hia seat, In an instant the fellow’s demeanor changed, and with ab- humility he pleaded that he was a pressed man ia liberal army aud was always ready to serve the Ein- Mendez took him at his put him in the aod next day he was to be seen blazing away rent enjoyment at his late comrades. His en were sent up to the Emperor, Reed has suffered crucliy, and what is more may forward to undergo worse punishment if the liberals Should ever get in. Shetis are no respecter of persons, but take non-combatants as often or oftener than combatants, ‘maby Citizens have been killed in their houses and in the streets. Two painfai casos came within my own observation. A woman looking out of the window of ber house had her bead taken off by a round shot, and on the same day @ protty little girl, seven yoars old, was killed by 4 bullet in the Plaza Forced loans to the ox. tent of $400,000 have been extorted from the wealthy Citizens, in addition to which every one ing any means at all t+ obi to pay a daily contribution rang- Ing from $3 to $120 for the support of the army. Wha’ ever horses, stores of goods are for troops wherever they can be found, and those who possess them are imprisoned for not having given them up. Getting Despernte—An Attack on the Liberals Hendquarters—Masonic Courtesy. Heapquarrens, Queneraro, April 28, 1867. Events of a stirring and unexpected character have broken tm upon our daily monotony and changed the down to the Alamedz, tuat ttle park of which mention nee or month's slew if mend bs. O a by 4s fighiss aul s mortio was, that immoral, in . 1. constitutes a xood arn y oniy wc aud all ar Thousands of buagry men and Wowen Uyaged tie sirvets, begging for broad, or corn to make It ¢. Was becuin ng alinest as scarce as waice Ruglt was evs acing dent to every one thats erisiy was at hand Besides a | |, tmouth’s inaction was beginuing Lo teil upol the ariuy uienor to ours, and ina day or two more the disa‘fectiog which wee | (°° mont was ocommnmici wie two now only slight would become widespread. Something | i."°i,q" Phonon’, capturol im tue fight of April they remarked, “You have y must be done, Acouneil of war was caliedat the Cruz | °° tread You have, dlociined. geet, aeatatone om- —— onesie SPS than Gosapensuted for by t stment of twahuadred | iar\piwces + head a3 and fly viodurteers troia ab gorisouers | ofY re nd } Captucnd in the tight, The resuit is us angular asthe | se cet y way i Came apout, i y n " Oa the evening of the the 262 our prospects looked | rhe ve lay’ fixl vein, y aQout 48 gloumy 4s they well coud be. p : et Oty ved, ube ? Bayt wun wes hen un, “Owe hay m” vale wowed On the puiut of giving out allogetber aus starva- > toverher,”? we jou iooked us in the face, Maize waa not to/be had, ad we ot led dawn am) Wiin 80% shiver niy com. Mousey mod be ephne, engage: be cipined army, and we heve and held Jong and anxious deliberation, fjally the re } W'hins OE > al E-ery liberal officer we hav solve was taken, | tiithy appearance of ars testimony, To ragred, It was determined at daybreak Gene! evidence in point, aud thd. ers Drought in is strom break on the 1 sd Petipen yp omer rape hg Gps for the most pare were Miramon with all the available troops should attack the Wo have nover attacked wuts, “2é2rous to the owner, enemy’s position and endeavor to carry it by jtorm. All only mismanagement, Joalodsy o} CUewy have rua, and cleucy of toree have proventeuguesuers or inguil- the genorals united in insisting that the Rmpiror should decisive vi Rot risk ie fe im the fight, and be reluctamiy gave in | Txi06 gain! belore ths Hers Hm boo “ho great mide to thoir representations, He remained g the Cruz | mencoment they mistrusied their noe lid = judpal - eaniy jealous of aliowing the fore; 4 See te eT | eal in, constituted thelr iain st , “hich, pepsapbenyesce and they overrated the.strongih of the enday “, P'ayy No one disguised from himself the fact thst the move | had aitacked Excobedo and Corona “in. te! was a desperate one, Least of all did Maximilian, 1 | in the early days of March when ave seen hin undef fire « doken ‘times, hen he was entering the valley, insteal of staying 3 in their entrenchments and allowing the enemy to Wai ‘the coolest of all present. Then it was only his own | them and ag eA (ad siege of nacre life he risked. Now, the safety of twothirds of his | Wood nevor havo been heard o! army, the lives of a thousand wounded men in the Hos. | Sii#fked on the 16th of Maxct pitals, certain to be massacred if the liberals entered the city, and the lives and property of hundreds of the citizens were staked on one throw of the dice, No or, again, if they ‘the’ morning aftor 0) ly repulsed in their aitempt to it, the result, in the opinion of every iuteliigent prisoner, Would bave been most disas trous to (be cauze of President Juarez Unaniuaty and beeo and are not now sean and meee: are hed at ‘onu aud Escobedo baye two prev thangs pion totale pteyegs lyon | ar fferea! of campaign—one desiriug {0 carry ‘Taking every man that oonid be withdrawn from the | the city by storm and the other desiring to starve the ~ | garrison oat, The lai Jaa, Iam strong! lines, the attacking foros ly numbered three thou: think, will succeed, 1 Gand men, Even the withdrawal of this small number | 1 'trencues, earthworks aud barricades thot itt oaay to concentrated sttack on almost any point the | repulse any assaults, and wo have an inexhavstivio sup. enemy might have forced a passage into the ply of ammunition, for General Vidanrri, vetore he left Marquez, discovered enough sulphur iu the city to city, From this you ar eee how weak is the garri- Wait of ios son that for fifty held this city against tue e1 tire Nberal army. It has been nominally rated at twelve thousand men. Mexican figures net pty be halved; and with the best opportunities for judging I Deliove its effective strength has never exceeded six or seven thousand. Every pri jon for a defeat had been mado; @ was hardly looked for. The pro- gramme was that if the attack failed, the Emperor, at the bead of his hussars, his foreign officers and such e more gunpowder than we van use, ‘and money ure the only troubies, Among the captured documents yesterday were a number of letters to General Gargan on masouic matters from a leading treemasoa of New York, Maximilian, who belongs to the mystie craft, sent them back to the general witu @ courteous note, SLIGHTLY MENDACIOUS A number of liberai newspapers from Guanajuato and other cavalry a3 on the moment could be got together, | San Luis Potost also foll into our possession, ‘they "4 proved quite interest ng reading. We learnt by their should out his way through the enemy's lings snd take | Docks “ist Maximilian had gone mad hke his to the mountains, thera to forma junction with the forces of Olivera, or to make such other movements as circumstances might direct or the pursuit permit, In anticipation of some such disposition I had previously in- timated in the proper quariers that it would neither com- port with my instructions nor my inclinations to reruain in Quéretaro after the Emperor had left, and that I was repared to take all the risks involved in following his fancies wherever they might lead him. The result was, wito; that he wok for bis personal expenditure $10,400 a day out of the city of Querdiaro, and that all those little Oghts which we in our insula ignorance bad supposed to be cituer indecisive engage- ments ur reverses for the enemy were in reality glorious liberal victories, resulting iu the capture from the impe- Tialists of more guns in tue aggregate than we ever poa- sessed apd more prisoners than the whole garrison could supply, Major General Pope ought.certainly 19 come to hat T was at once courteously assigned to an honorary | S/evico, Even ho could hardly improve upon the order nies oes Maxicalbante ae Reames ny e day which Regules istued this morning, thanking a dy for, OO a Lys he complete re- together in front of the old Couvent of La Cruz. ‘There of April 27 As poor litte Mojia, dying slowly of an incurable discase, pure of eight guns sitting m_ the porch, huddled up ina blanket, like a leper at the of the Temple. Jolly, farmer looking Aguirre, Minizter of Public Instruction, betrayed no agi- talion on his smilizg face. But the Pretect—shorn for Ube nonce of bis officiai dignity—looked decidedly un- comfortal ‘and so did many others, whose prominence in the imperis! service rendered it unsafe for them to stay, but who, » parently, at that particular moment, were of opinion there was not much differeace in point of yr etween going away and remaining be- bind. * ‘At four o’clock. jst as the first glimmer of day ap- peared, the attackiv, forco moved out—as nearly aI could judge, eight tin ir-d cavalry and leas than two thousand infantry. von all seemed in bigh spirits, which was one happy «agury for the success of the undertaking. Noise: :-1,, threading tue which intersect every «rect of the city, they marc} and many prisosers. Another Attnck on the LiberalsNarrow Es- cape of Maximillan—A Drunken Onslaaght— poleosigh Qvenrtano, May 12, 1807, More fights without docisive results, more rumors of approaching reliet without facts to back them, more misery, hunger and death have filled up the intervening days since my last despatch. Famine has us now fast In his clatches and a day or two at the farthest, perhaps a few hours, will seo the end of the siege. For sixty-five days the little garrison of Querétaro has beld out, with a persistency which, under other circumstances, would be hed | callod beroic. They bave bad tocontend against not vious letters. To only the enemy without but traitors within tho lines. tae tert of the Alemeds, aa will be Seon by Inigonoe to | Ramire, one of ‘Maximilin’s gonorals, is now * under the accompanying plan, js the charcb of San krancis- | arrest with several of his staf for atvempting to betray quite, Carpe) bed L apoenacstind peti es, ond the city to the enemy, and what is worse there is strong city, ‘it was from this point chat the altack reason to believe that the treason neither begins nor ends with him, The situation is @ critical one, and I o~ must confess to fecling a strong personal anxiety as to the | bow it will ond. On Wednesday, the Ist of May, an attack was made Matera | by the imperial forces upon the Garita or gunrdbonse, whieh commands the road to Mesico, Its position and short range as might be expected every sot told with | thatof the other points implicated in the affair are fatal eftosey. | Before twenty, shee, bed vee nen the ‘maked.on the pi loved in. my } c pense iy fer their guns, and all took to flignt, with- | The attack was to have been made on the 80th of ut waiting th ‘of the attacking force. A | April, but thé procrastination and mafana-ism which per ‘scized the whole line. An entir: battalion fed ‘ore fifty of the tm dores, who rod the | company every Mexican transaction caused it to be chest regimental ‘and its contents, and ‘@ good | delayed until the following morning. Consequently, as thing of it. Whole companies threw down their arms | , matter of course, the liberals got full information of and, ran forward Wo surrender Detar eved’ no’ more | the intended movement. Two battalions of infantry— ietect? then sae. mon, left the Guarda Municipal, commanded by Colonel Rod- ogling 8 repee batlog them rigues, and the Casadores, led by Major, now Licaten- es, eed Sa oumecy, pas ter ast Colonel Pistner—moved out of Cras upon browgat back by oeral cavairy., General tne hacionda of Callqja, captured by Cantilo self, who was in command the 27th ult, and subsequently reoccupied of the” frat to. skedaddl horse, his | {no tiberale. Wg Oey Alyy nd ‘Miramon continued his victorious march all down the | success, Remrees, oMhoes orders, marched upon the evemy’s line, from opposite the San Franciaquito to the | strong hacien a i pro a fortified hacienda of Jacal, which he carried, He cap- | His troops had carried es ov “ mere afair tured twonty-one guns—one thirty-six pounder, three | **Y to captare the yen rs at 2 were twonty-foor pounders, seventeen mountain guns of | already scampering tn confusion up from four to twelve ee ee nearly six bun- 101 inciading sixteen officers, 3 ‘hts cme Det had oy comers ate poe sl the enemy's BOL cost Tho capture of "yas actually eMfected oy lowe tian» | los of their officer, fallback * in confusion, hundred men, who ran from gun to gan, ali along the | of Len prea byl rod a Alin E. Me g lige. The enemy had degua to run, and there was no one baggy nee firm prom 2 soma. knowing when they would stop. At least three thou. | Major Pitner, Cazad: Yearned subseq ly charged back, recovered the body, and the one be page hg mend and tbe preg My Sexe day it was buried with all military honors. Colonel font after them with lassocs to bring them back. But uez was one of the very few brave, —— and here a disastrous miscaiculation occurred. The original | trustworthy Mexican officers in the imperial service, lan was for Miramon, if he carried the line of the Maximiliag could better have spared half # dozen of bis Bietuario, to double back along the valley lying between | generals. Even after his untimely deat, the move. the Cimatarlo hill and the Cimatario mountain, and then | Ineut might bave been suecesatul bad it hoe oeeewe when, as Rodriguez wae jumping @ low wall e was shot thi yb the heart, At the same in- stant two battalions of the enemy moved up to the rescue, and the imperial troops, demoralzod it, however, it ended with the death of Rodrig: THE THIRD ATTACK. Very inte a night of two afterwards an orderly came my quarters with the following mysterious note: — Lee etLE PELE IOTO LOCO LOLELEDELEIELODE LODOLOLELE PE: {Comddeutial, } ‘ sar 9: 0088 1A Con, , At four o'clock, A. M. § F rH § i é FS The enemy poured in a also killed a namber of citizens im their POLE LOL LE PELELE LEO DE DELO VOLO DELELE LE DELO LO DD —_ ser oe nder, oor bg 1X the camp. he bf the circum. surprise been offveted & complete victory made, and the fined, but we bad not foree, edough to follow it wp. vel: that 1, 1@ results consequently were for the most part lost, a and bis except the captu: and the restored tbe savtirys of our army. Rest of While these events were in the headquarters was Cull seven a ae el ——— Of intense excitement, made, Mere uphere. At tho head of one Ereanenent of prisoners bg ag an ail about him. The ont, TOS Emperor, etruck by his appearance, which botokened ‘Cerro or’ if 1m excellent German, look: as if he dared any to contradict him. He turned out to be the Adju: one Lg Morain, aad is format rstdoncs' was, Rancho Dev, dows with 8 was 10 Davie, His name is Gifimer. He is a Baron in Prussia, sarthe, tae on, ty oY but in Texas he wasabarkecper. The rewurn of the shot mo camp followers with their plunder was a prolilic source of opened am ‘evon fn the aaxiety of the hour. Oue fellow the oulae Hoeiee voiled all way from Cusa Blanca to the a dis- trespe onase © tance of more than two miles, with a big eburch bell on his back, everybody he seizing the ¢ and ing ® tocein, How got tt no one bat bimacif could say; but 1t was woll received and seat to the ar- ‘senal to bo melted down for shells, Another ‘%u came i rae ‘would prove of the highest importance. 4 pap dn ‘csosoourved aon wea that bis prizes en eeaeak wore only regimental bat that they woald be ‘courter te agetul, as waste paper was scarce. | saw an officer ‘dated Monte idling into the town with a live upon bis back, ‘he was on were ie m4 broaght in on end conceivable bing to be Tound gg pang tee 4 Tgp ae Boe dypoan pt ae ‘of the with his the Emperor grew more and mere af 4; tare in we lnaetivag, At last, when the dings cucne, ry “We have their whole line, and ‘their ar- ween Mati. hove caliod his Messer sround ‘him; aed, standed. by ir receeed, bis fdas dchots, Prince Sali, rode out to the Rela. He iF i hi HI i 1 | by cavairy, but Miramou, who directs all itary tack sb onamy a ponou on the mounialn of er; | movemaut, basa kawck 6 "omlting some of the wom spoiled im the execution, All this time Gen | ossentall details," While = — on erat Castillo, ye ee WO ee ae of peor fe ee hen ea ty ‘auned hag => and four , Was occu! imeda, close valley extending from our lines to tho haciouda of Cale -, and put in portion a piece Se, leja, which he captured, and to the foot of the uili of | which throw +o . ang Cuesta China, with a view to prevent the enemy re- the chorch of einat aae be 7 nage mS ceiving reinforcements from Kacobedo’a camp on the | with five hundred ya hn Me eat Carretas. 1¢ does not seem to have occurred either to | bave lone werents emnsualen, te < ry orauk’. put by Miramon or Castilio that if the valley at tho back of the | am arrangement ope mae ns telow the Cimataris hill was available for Miramon to advance by | rank of a captain of a pA “4 order a gua to the attack on the Carretas it waa equally avatiabie for fired, and as there Pere no <8 tho retm- troops from the Carretas to mareh down to the attack | forcemonts replithed uni imate of Miramon. While Castillo was patiently watching in | taneously with the on the garita, another move- front of the Cuesta China, four thousand of the enemy's mont was made to silence @ battery of the enemy's, best troops were quietly marched round the back of | which, being within four hundred yards of the Cruz, . the biil, and when Miramon was rounding the Simataris | was uncomfortably troublesome. This battery was to retura heencountered them. This was the most un- | located near the aqueduct, at @ point where some fortunate event of the day. mistakes had been | of the arches been blown up to cus made, In the attack on hacienda of Jacal Miramon | off the supply of water from the city. Gommanication had lest some considerable ‘and =the: | being thus intercepted it follows that the portion of the movement was pertectiy useless, the in- | aqneduct leading from the Cruz to the of reception stant tne piace was captured aban- paratively di age 4 citizens vol- doned again and reoccupied by the enemy without | unteered to craw! slong in the sii within reach one of the being destroyed. Bat now he | of the hattery, aad to throw hand grenades into n.