The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-27
The Uturbide Family.

sue by his marriage with Carlotta of Bel
GUM, has been looking about for an he'll
TO his throne in the event either of his
natural death or of his forced retirement
from the Halls of the MOntezumas. lie has
decided upon the selection of one of the old
Yturbide pronounced Ee-terr-bee-tlee
family-the descendants of the Emperor Of
that name, who figured prominently in the
events which separated Mexico from
Spain and who became Emperor in I222
The selection of one Of this family naturally
leads to inquiry as to its history, and the
New York Herald gives the following
sketch:
The representatives ofthe Yturbidc FAM
lily now living are
l. Angelo de Yturbide, second son of the
Emperor. ~
2 Augustin do Yturbde (son of Salvador
third son of the late Emperor
3. Augustin T. de Yturbide fifth and
youngest son of the late EMPEROR. the
Prince Imperial as adopted by Macmillan
a. Angelo de Yturbide, son of Angelo de
fturbide, and also Prince Imperial as
adopted by Macmillan.
The Emperor de Yturbide the head of the
family and who is sometimes
called the Washington of Mexico in CON
sequence OF his success in detaching Mexico
from Spain, was born in EalladoIid de
Mlchoacan, Mexico, in l7S4. He was in early
lie Spanish soldier, serving at first in the
In4 1910 the regular army of Spain in
| Mexico. lie fought his insurgent country
men with great yigOr, and, having been in
| strnmental IN suppressing the insurrection
lea by Morales he was promoted. He was
| subsequently, still further promoted for de-
Ginning to take part in the instruction pro-
Jected by Don Miguel HidalgO, though ten
/ dered the rank of Lieutenant General and
on the suppression of the Instruction the
spanish NlcerOy made him Governor Of
Gnanajuto and YallalOdid He shortlv after
IeH under suspicion of want of fidelity to
the Spanish authorities, and was court
mortlaied. On his acquittallhe retired in
dissust 10 his estates, and did not appear I
again IN public life until 1919 when, having |
mStured his plans for the emancipation Of |
Mexico from the Spanish yoke, he assumed
command of the Mexican Army of the
South, aud began his work of Overwhelming
Mexico He afterwards claimed that he /
accomplished his plans and purposes without (
Dlooushetl imprisonment, contributions or
conflscation. The work was short He
TOOK possession otthe entire country without
night. and on August ~, 1921, concluded
nj Cordova, the treaty with SPAN which
virtually recognized the Independence of
Mexico. He Immediately formed a Govern
meht, OF which he was the head as Pres
luent; but this form OF Government was |
round 10 be nnsuited to the people or the
times, and his friends, in Nav, Is22 pro
gustln l. The Congress declared the title TO
Dc hereditary in his family, and thus the
1tlrbldes became royal house ii
The reign of Augustin l. did not last very !
long. Having formed his government lie !
began TO take steps for its greater security
Among his first acts was The removal Of
santa Anna from the command Of the forces
81 vera Cruz. Though done in order to give I
santa Anna better position nedr the per :
son OF the Emperor. that worthy took great ! 9
ouense al his removal, and refused TO give +
up the command, declaring the Government :
TO be a republic and himself President YtnT.
oide immediately sent force against Santa f
anna but the general whom he had placed +
n command, Echavarri, soon declared for /
santa Anna. This detection spread until if f
became evident that he was no longer o
wanted as an emperor by the Mexicans
" hen Yturbide resigned, March 30 la26 and
asked permission to leave the country. Santa
anna granted the request on condition that c
10 should never return, and at the same time f
granted him yearly pension of S25. OOO-a
pension since continued to his family. AL \
hough promising not to return, the En- \
'eror did so; IN July, 1924, he was detected l
disguise, and being proclaimed a traitor n
vas executed by being shot, at San Antonio -
lie Padilla, July 10, 1924 II
Inc wife and several children had followed II
heir husband and father to Mexico and also h
ell INTO Santa Annals hands. They were [
ot mOlested, however, but sent out of the -
ountry. They found an asylum in PhiIa- e
elphia, on the pension which Mexico had IA
rOmlsed, and which has always been tt
romptly paid. Madame Yturbide died at m
Philadelphia few years since. Very little -
, known i'll this country of the sons of Ytur- =
lde' though they received an excellent edu- az
alton in Philadelphia and at GEORGETOWN, "
J: Z. One of them married a Miss Green II
Heorgetown. Augustin and Angelo APP II
ear to have returned to Mexico and TO have u
Office under he
he first appears to have given in his adhe- in
on TO the empire as established by Maxi hi
lillian, for he is officially reported in the a.
lmanach dekGOtha for 1865 as being Vice III
resident of the National Order of Notre m
anne de In Gaudelonpe, an order of knight Ii
God founded IN the reign of Yturbide and GA
Established by decree of the provisional -
1yernment of Mexico in June, 1863 he
george Augustus Sala, writing from MeXi- OF
} IN 1865, describes Augustin as tail, til
OCULAR man, between fifty and sixty years
age, with yellow granite countenance =,
ad in the ordinary jacket and monstrous- In
1mmed sOmOrerO, calmly sauntering long sa
le Gallo San Francisco, a cigayito between elt
8 lips, and a big umbrella lined with white G.
lder his arm. He is said to have great :.
paclty for keen repartee, and to be one of 40
e dryest humorists in Mexico, To him il ito
trlbuted the saying that 'the armed Next TT
n was Individually a thief, in twos and ,1
rees gurrilla, and collectively an army; go
ID who, IN the scale of character, defined an
eomPatriots as consisting of, first, women, tn
EN- children, and lastly, Mexicans" As rel
to as December, 1865, Augustin was in Par -
living in thirdclass Spanish hotel CO.
Angelo Iturbide has been in the city of an
exlco for many years Sala thus describes
N: "A very diminutive prince, of merry fec
nPerament, full of information, who could 49,
eak English like an Englishman, and drink "l'
o bottles of dry sherry at sitting, which, an
the highly raritied atmosphere of the table err
n1 OF Rlo FRO, is much" The two adopt SO
Princes lmperial-the Junior Augustin -
"a Angelo-are now at school i'll France ~
hey have lately been appraised of their hel
ood fortune" One of the Paris papers, in the
how NJ. Hidalgo, the Mexican Pr
mister at Paris, carried the news of the
option to the two boys at college, found -
eldest and the heir apparent to the Mex ',
IN throne, ON the college ''stOol of repent A
&c for remissness in his studies 1t is per
nouncSd that the two new princes will the
on appear at the French court, and will cas'