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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lard, Rojas, and the greater part of the other Generals now actively employed by Juarez, were mere brigands, and were commissioned Generals when they brought their cut-throats to take service with his party. The only thing organized in Mexico is highway robbery. At every station between Vera Cruz and Mexico a sum of money is taken from travellers for the benefit of the robbers. It is like a regular tax, added to the price of passage. Women sometimes have to pay more than money. Marquez arrives at a town and demands $10,000 for the defenders of religion. If the money cannot be supplied, he shoots twenty-five persons, under pretence that if they have no money it must be because they have given it to his enemies. In eight days afterwards, Carvajal will come to the same town, and twenty-five more wretches are shot under a similar pretence. In one district alone, about the size of a French Department, fifteen hundred persons have perished in this manner. The correspondent