American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-14

friend powerful enough to protect her
In less than month after the tragedy o.
Good Friday. the Empress and suite. will
her family. were en- route to Philadelphia
where the Iturbide family possessed an ell
e.ant residence. and where they have con.
| tinued to reside ever since. Iturbide, the
Emperor. since his expulsion from the
Mexican throne, had the folly TO set on
foot countless intrigues to regain his lost
empire. At last he determined to make
another vigorous effort to regain what he
called ''hiS CROWN Landing once more
on Mexican soil. he was captured and shot
by the revolutiOnists. Among his eXecu-
TONERS, was the superior officer before
whom the unfortunate Emperor was tried
and condemned to pay with the penalty OF
his life his invasion of Mexico as an arch
traitor. This was unusual. but the mo-
tive is evident, when the officers name is
revealed. The man so thirsting for the
liam Earl's sou. What had been sOwn
now produced its fruit. The desperate
young man whose father had been so CRU
ely outraged, had sworn within himself
to exact a mighty retributiOn from the au-
thors of what he unjustly deemed his
overwhelming woes. No sooner had he
imbrued his hands in the blood of ven
geance the second time than he. too, fell
under the suspicion of the violent men at
that time guiding the destinies of MeXi-
co. One morning the suspected Earl was
conducted to the frontiers and mercifully
eXiled from his native country. Instant
death was the threatened penalty of ever
setting foot on Mexican territory again.
Escaping to the Sandwich Islands, he was
there for years a noble military attendant
OF kekuanOa. Governor of Oahu, till the
cry of '.GOld!" startled with its echoes
enterprising spirits from Yerba Buena to
Timbuctoo. Thither, too, went young
Earl. Of his Mexican friends he heard
nothing, and of course less if possible,
from Dona Luscinda: but they in Mexico,
however, knew of his every movement.
The old padre, through means at his COM
mand, constantly communicated with the
priests in Honolulu and Yerba Buena. and
so was enabled to correspond closely with
Madame Iturbide, the Empress, and her
ward, DOna Luscinda. Time with its
noiseless foot was stealing by, robbing-
''Poor pensioners on the bounty of an hour,''
when bona Luscinda began to discover
she was no longer young: would he ever
come to claim her hand? He had prom
ised to do so; he had even written to her
to beware Of any thing that might be said
to his disadvantage by the padre, her con-
slant correspondent, and this was his last
letter dated years before. The day came,
at last. when the padre, too, wrote her his
last letter, announcing the death of Will
liam Earl. Rest had come. at last, to that
turbulent soul. and his ashes long repOsed
i'm the Yerba Buena cemetery, his grave
undistinguished beyond small wooden
cross, bearing the initials, ''W. E.' Not
yet ten years ago, the unforgotten ashes
were solemnly transferred to Lone Noun
tain, and there lovingly deposited in a Sc
questered vale far from the beaten track
of vulgar sight-seers. The sad inscription
was traced by the hand of the single
mourner that would still believe in the
injustice of fate. that had seemingly done
its worst to ruin the happiness of not
only him under the lonely sod, but also
wrecked the forsaken one, who could not
forget the past. nor learn the ever-new
truth that ''all of life is not 10 live-all OF
death is not to die" When the melan-
choly ceremony was at an end, who
could describe the silent agonies of that
broken heart, as the pale-taced mour-
ner turned away TO seek her dis
tant home. desolate and alone with God
and her own faltering heart? Sorrow
soon claimed her. / saw her name. not
long since, engraven upon the narrow
house of death. 1t was LUCINDA IN pace
-Orerland Monthly for September.