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Poor Santa Anna.

--This celebrated person has for several years been living at St. Thomas in a quiet manner, enjoying to the full his fondness for cockfighting. Thinking, however, that a chance for his peculiar talents was made by the invasion of Mexico and the occupation of the French, Santa Anna went there, but was summarily dismissed by General Bazaine, who sent him out of the country. The French seem destined to extinguish Santa Anna. At the bombardment by them of Vera Cruz, under the reign of Louis Phillippe, Santa Anna lost his leg; now, under Louis Napoleon, he loses his head — politically.

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