Religious Troubles in Mexico.
A LETTER from the city of Mexico, Nov. 15, gives the annexed account of cruel outrages occasioned by religious fanaticism:— “On the 6th, the villagers of Quentia, San Luis, Ocotopec and San Lucas assembled, and entering the town of Tejupilco sacked, burned, and destroyed various houses and the property of all such persons as had taken the oath to respect the new laws of reform, committing abuses which my pen cannot depict. In the afternoon, the Indians captured and reduced to prison the Gefe Politico of Temascaltepec, the unfortunate Adrian Varela, and the Tax Collector, Rumualdo Dominguez, who, having been horribly martyrized, were assassinated in the Mina de Plata, and their bodies having been stripped naked they were thrown into the river near by.” Two days afterward, a sufficient military force arrived in the place, and gave pursuit to the Indians, whose village was reduced to ashes. The Indians rallied in such numbers, however, that the troops were forced to retreat, the savages shouting “Death to the Protestants! Long live religion!” The account further states that the Municipal President of Auguagueno, on account of his acquiescence in the laws of reform, was seized by the revolters, and having been covered with pitch was set on fire, and, while living, suffered the martyrdom which the Inquisition of old applied to its victims. While the flames were consuming this unfortunate man, the savages danced around him. The scene of these outrages is about sixty or seventy miles north-west of Mexico city.