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Rh that city, on the 3d of February. He was, however, obliged to abandon the place on the 7th, and on the 22d of the same month was defeated by General Cuéllar at Lagunilla near San Martin Atexcal. The rebel force was completely dispersed. Insurrectionary movements also occurred in almost all the states; but by the end of June public security was reëstablished, and in October and November the pacification was nearly completed.

Another revolution broke out, however, on the 15th of December, 1869, at San Luis Potosí, headed by generals Francisco Aguirre, Martinez, and Larrañaga, against Juarez' government, and was seconded on the 10th of January, 1870, in Zacatecas by Governor Trinidad García de la Cadena, who placed himself at the head of the whole movement. The rebels, supported by a body of troops of the fourth division, seized a conducta of about $70,000. The public peace was also again disturbed in other states. The president displayed due activity, having first obtained ample powers from congress. The states where the