SUTTEE, Jr. , United States Consul to John W. Foster , Envoy Extraordinary and, February 7, 1875

Mr. Sutter to Mr. Foster.

Sir: Confirming to you my communication (No. 27) of the 3d instant, I have the honor to report to-day that on the afternoon of the 3d, just as General Alvarez was ready to leave, a second demonstration, similar to the one of the day before, was made; otherwise the town is quiet, although in case of need I fear the State militia now here could not be relied on, and although menaces against the lives of the wounded Protestants, who are being taken care of together in the house of Mr. Procopio Diaz and guarded every night by some twenty resolute and well-armed brethren, (Mr. Hutchinson’s servant among them,) are repeatedly and openly uttered. The wounded men, I am happy to say, are all out of danger.

Yesterday afternoon I called upon the district judge to inquire if anything relative to the massacre had been elicited. He replied that everything remained in statu quo, the only culprits discovered so far being, singularly enough, the two aggressors who lost their lives in the affray, the second one having died on last Sunday, the 31st, from a pistol-shot received during the affray of the 26th.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,