e had a new following, there being many of the adventurous class
who sympathized warmly with his enterprising efforts. This was especially
the case in the South. Thither Walker proceeded, and, inspired by his old
enthusiasm, he soon organized another company, which sought to leave the
country in October, 1858. He was closely watched, however, and the whole
company was arrested at the mouth of the Mississippi on the steamer on
which passage had been taken.

President Buchanan had issued a proclamation forbidding all such
expeditions, and Walker was now put on trial before the United States
Court at New Orleans. But the case against him seemed to lack satisfactory
evidence, and he was acquitted.

Desisting for a time from his efforts, Walker occupied himself in writing
an account of his exploits, in a book entitled "The War in Nicaragua." But
this was far too tame work for one of his stirring disposition, and in
June, 1860, he was off again, this time making Honduras the scene of his
invading energy. Landing at Truxillo on the 27th, he seized that town and
held it for eight weeks, at the end of which time he was ordered to leave
the place by the captain of a British man-of-war. The president of
Honduras was rapidly approaching with a defensive force. Walker marched
south, but his force was too small to cope with the president's army, and
he had not gone far before he found himself a captive in the hands of the
Honduran government. Central America had by this time more than enough of
William Walker and his methods, and five days after his capture he was
condemned to death and shot at Truxillo.

Thus ended the somewhat remarkable career of the chief of filibusters, the
most persistent of modern invaders of foreign lands, whose reckless
exploits were of the mediaeval rather than of the modern type. A short,
slender, not especially demonstrative man, Walker did not seem made for a
hero of enthusiastic adventure. His most striking feature was his keen
gray eyes, which brought him the title of "the gray-eyed man of destiny."

MAXIMILIAN OF AUSTRIA AND HIS EMPIRE IN MEXICO.

It is interesting, in view of the total conquest and submission of the
Indians in Mexico, that the final blow for freedom in that country should
have been made by an Indian of pure native blood. His name was Benito
Juarez, and his struggle for liberty was against the French invaders and
Maximilian, the puppet emperor, put by Louis Napoleon on th