Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-04-20
Death of an ex-Empress.

Death Of an ex-Empress.
An ex-Empress died in Philadelphia a
week or two since. We refer to Madame
Huate de Yturbide, widow of the former
Emperor Of Mexico, whose deccase took
place on Thursday, March 2lst, 1861, at
her lodgings in Broad street. This esti.
mable lady, who has resided in Philadel. !
phia since the execution of her husband by
the Mexican Government, i'll 1924, be-
longed to distinguished Spanish family
long resident in Mexico. Her misfortunes
as we'll as her good qualities as woman,
had secured her the regard of the society
in which she moved. A pension from the
Mexican Government enabled her to edu.
cate her family literally, and she has per-
formed her duties as mother and q
member of society in faithful and exem-
plary manner.
One or two Of the sons of Madame
Yturbido have, we believe, resided in
Mexico of late years, and have held offices
under the Government. Her daughters
were unable to be present at the funeral,
which took place on Saturday morning, at
st. Joseph's Church. The service was of
the simplest, most unostentatious kind
There none of the kindred of the noble were
lady, who once worn a crown, to follow
her remains to the grave. A few gentle
men of Philadelphia, whose social posi-
ii on had brought them into intimate rela-
tions with the family in past times, atten'
ded the funeral; and scarcely one in ten
thousand of the vast population of the city
where she had long resided, knew that the
grave had that day closed over one who
once held rank as an Empress.
The sad affliction that has thus befallen
the family of Madame de Yturbide recalls
to the memory the heroic career of hel
noble husband. He was the great man oi
the best days of Mexico. He was the au
thor of her separation from Spain, and the
Mexican people, in the first fu'h of theil
gratitude, fairly thrust upon him thu
crown, which he had designed, in the
famous "Plan of Iguala," for a Spanish
prince. He was proclaimed Emperor witt
the title of "Augustiu the First on the
night of May 18th, 1922. For a lonl
time he refused the proffcred crown, ant
it was only after the Congress had vote'
for him by vote of II to Is, that he ac
ceptsd it. In the following month th'
Congress voted unanimously for making
the crown hereditary in the family O
Yturbide, and soon after he was solemnl.
crowned
But the tickle and faithless Mexican
people did not stand by the monarch the.
had chosen. The military leaders tha
have been the curse of the country begal
to conspire against the Government. A
civil war arose, in which Santa Anna sool
became a prominent leader against tn
Emperor. A republic was proclaimed an
on the Goth of March, 1928, after tur
bulent reign of less than year, Yturbid
: abdcated. Permission was granted t
him to leave the country, and pension o
S25,O 900 year was granted to him. II
went with his family to Italy, but returne
in 1924 to Mexico, where, in the mean
time, he had been prescribed as traitor
! though he did not know the fact.
Gen. Cara, the Governor of Tamauli
pas, pretending friendship, betrayed hin
, to the Congress of that State, and he wa
Immediately arrested and, without tria
. was sentenced to death. The sentenC
was carried into effect at Padilla, Jul
10th, 1924, less than a week from tn
) time of his landing on the coast, and b
: fore an appeal could be made to the gen
: eral Government at Mexico.
r He died like a hero, addressing SON
manly words to the soldiers, and himse
adjusting the bandage over his eyes befo
y he was shot. Mexico has never had
s braver man or purer patriot in hSr G
u vernment.