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Show n j a JiLJiuitiiiLu.iPin.. ft ' Tins date, April the Eind, la not an S M unlmporUnt oue In the annul, of C B , ' 1 American blitory. It la the mini- la) 1 1 ? '1 "unary of the day In 1819, ou which X '$ lleruaudo (Jortei landed ou thla Con. W jl , - tlnent. Hedliemlarked on the -pit R, JB J J J wlitre Vira Cru, In Mexico, now to 11 I etanda. Illaanuy numlwred aliout TO) HK ta'' - 1 ruen. He proceeded to tho auclunt OjliUi' i City of Mexico, laid telgo to It, and -Be ImU ' I tuccoedlug In enj turlmc Uunte BKajl a J ? 1 moiln, the but of tho Ait.o WSg, i J inonarcba, ou Augut IS, is:i. u, rafc' ! I i I'W ht -lilted Callfurnla, aud aur. kW ,j. I) veyodagriatpnrtolthe Uulfaewrat. f I i p. (, Ingltlrom Mexico. Idle Coluiulai, ',: I i- K btwaa the Tktlm of repeated con JIl:f V 'Ilroclea by tlvala for thu royal favor of Jffl CharleaV.ofHpalu. Cortex ,turutll MAM Vi hoineandgave up all Ma tlllee aud StMRl 'i It 1 Iwera In Mexico 3KJJfJ : I l) In hU coiiipieat ol Mexico, Cortex K waa ailed by a tiadhlou which .. Ill I tailed among tho Axle. Thu waa bHHbHbBBil that a white (bid, or Menlali would oonnfroai thtKaat who would rule orer the At ten, and woul I Inaugurate a millenlutn of peace, harmony, prwerltyaodliapplni. In fact the tralltlon waa equivalent to what la taught by Chrlatlana aa tho avcoml coming of ChrlaU Cortci waa re gnrJed by the Aileca.aa thla while god, and whola trltwa nllit-J thtuuelrra tn hltatandard. The tlty of Mexico at thla time had, ltlaMld,,nuu Inhabitant. Corttx, when he reached there bad only IW Hn arda hwldct hit Indian alllt. After tereral ycara of hard fighting, In which Cortex waa oppoaed byhlaown cuunlrimen, be finally reduced Mexico to aullug.tlon. When the war waa comkted, the population waa reduced to I ),i). War an 1 famine bad done thalrwtrk. Tho gnat ca lul of the Monteximaa lay In rulna "like tomn huge churchyard with the coritta dla Inurred, and the toinlatonea aoattercd abuut," All waa not ainootb tailing for the connucrur. Ho dle.1 In Hcvlll-, a beartlruktii, dligraced and Ula. honored man, In Uecemlwr, l'H. |