The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-11-24
THE HONEYMOON IN MEXICO.
Adventures of Senor Antonio Mejin and His
Anne ricnn Bride-AlPs Well that Ends
Well.

Adventures of Seuor Antonio N1ejin and His
Amc cicnn Bride.-AN's Well that Ends
Well.
A significant study OF the present So
eial and political condition of our vol
sanic geographical neighbor, luckless
Mexico, may be found in the history of
ihe honeymoon of young Senior Antonio
Mejia, now on his way, by the Pacific
Railroad, from California to this city,
q company with the charming Ameri-
an lady whose matrimonial assumption
his name gives her the grace of hero
le in his curious adventures.
The gentleman is son of the gallant
nd chivalrous General Mejia, who, as
resident Juarez's Minister of War du-
ing the late French invasion, and in
arious official capacities since then, has
aimed wide celebrity, and, himself,
.njoys the rank of Paymaster of the
Military Division of the West, at Quay
mas, in the province of Sonora. 1t was
at the latter place, soon after the with
drawal of Bazaine and his legion from
Mexico and the termination OF our own
Southern rebellion, that he formed the
acquaintance of Miss Conner, a beauti-
full and rarely accomplished girl of but
little more than sixteen, whose father,
the late Edward Conner, originally from
Brooklyn, had, after an honorable ca
reer as editor of the Alta, in San Fran
cisco, accepted the American Consulship
to Guaymas. The acquaintance, under
parental approval, ripened quickly to
marked esteem, and that to the grander
sentiment of love. So it was that, in
June last, there was a brilliant wedding
at the Consulate, and the international
, flags of the two American republics
formed canopy under which the young
military patrician and the Consuls
blushing daughter became Mr.. and Mrs.
Mejia.
1t was the design Of the happy hus-
band to make the City of Mexico the
objective point of the bridal tour, where
his father and family would receive
them with honors and feasting; but,
before the party could set out, an epi-
sode thoroughly characteristic of the
country turned their joy into consterna-
ton.
A few days after their marriage, while
the bridegroom and bride, at window
of their hotel, were looking out upon
the harbor of Guaymas, and specializing
kaspn the nationality of a strange steam
er In the otiing, a noise behind them at
tracted their attention, and, turning,
they were astounded to find the room
filled with armed men. The intruders,
some ten in number, were dressed in
half-military, half-naval uniforms, and
their leader, the notorious Vega, pre-
scented revolver at Mejia's breast, ex-
planning, "You are my prisoner" So
rtealthily had the freebooters approached
their prey, and so perfect were all the
arrangements for the capture, that, de-
spite the shrieks of the young wife, and
before the least effective resistance could
be made, the captive was carried from
the hotel to the waterside, and from
thence taken in a man-of-war cutter to
the strange steamer which he had SO
lately wondered at This same craft was
no other than the famous Forward,
which, some six months previously, af-
ter leaving New York as freight YES
sci, had, upon the high seas, been turned
into pirate ship by Vega and his fol-
lowers, and directed, under revolutiona-
~ pretext, against the regular govern
ment of Mexico.
While permitting Mrs. Mejia to pack
a few clothes for her husband, they
would neither allow her to accompany
him nor tell her whittier he should go;
but the pirates forgot that she, at least,
had government powerful enough to
call them to account. and, in leaving
her behind, committed an oversight
speedy in its revenge. Scarcely had the
Forward disappeared from view, when