Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-11
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AMERICAN ENTERPRIsE, ETC

The New York Herald's City of
Mexico correspondence Of May 2Sth
contains some interesting gossip con-
cerning Maximillian and his Empress,
French inadaptation to Mexico, and
affairs generally, past and present,
from which we select the following
MAMMALIAN AND cARLoTrA.
Maximillian speaks fiuently six
languages. He is particularly pleas
ing in his address, has the air Of a
student, and wears, in conversation
natural or cultivated I cannot say
which), kind and genial smile
which wins tor him as many friends
as do his affable manners. He is
tall and commanding in form, is thirty
six years Of age, and looks every
inch the emperor.
Carlotta is about twenty-three
years of age, stately in form and
graceful dancer In an assemblage
Of which should think two hundred
were ladies, she was the tallest. She
is decidedly and indisputably hand
some. The eyes and forehead are
full of intellect, and in conversation
| the face lights up with smile that
indicates q pure and kind heart.
There is at times, however, a degree
of hawtear in the expression, which,
though it perfectly becomes the En-
press, detracts, a little from the win
ming sweetness which characterizes
the fine, oval face. Every feature
evinces talent, intelligence, frmness,
and, above all, ambition.
THE FRENCH NOT ADAPTED TO MEXICO.
The remark has often been made
that the French, unlike other Euro
pean nations, never take kindly to
| colonizing, a fact which seems to be
we'll illustrated in their national his
tory. A Frenchman, however well
he may be situated abroad, is seldom
satisfied until he gets back to Ia belle
France. They are rather sojourners
than settlers in distant lands. This
is exemplifed in Mexico, where all
the French are looking forward with
impatience to their return. Regi-
ments, whose time is out, embark at
Vera Cruz with shouts of joy, and
count the days that separate them from
home. If the Mexican occupation is
unpopular in France, it is not less so
among the French officers here. All
are disgusted with war which iso-
lates them from their world of gaye
ty and life and gives them few or no
opportunities to acquire military re-
nown. Some of the best officers in
the French army have been sacri
feed in these petty guerrilla skir-
mishes--an obscure death without
the roar of the great battle field, and
far from where their exit might have
been attended with eclat and glory.
Wherever the French have pene-
trated in Mexico they have brought
no benefit to the localities they have
occupied. In general sense, their
presence has been OF great service to
the country by preserving peace,
protecting property and encouraging
native industry, which had become
paralyzed by the continual descents
of guerrillas upon the haciendas and
stripping them of cattle and crops.
Perfect security to property exists
wherever the imperial government
has established itself. But the French
leave 10 money behind them. In
fact, they have none to spend, their
pay being such a miserable pittance
that it scarcely sufices to keep body
and soul together. This compels
| them to economize rigidly, and it is
very seldom that the French or Bel
gian soldier can afford to spend
ever so triAing sum. Among the
officers, though their pay is proper
tionally small, there are many gen
tlenen of wealth who, Of course, see
and pay for all of life that Mexico
offers. But in the wake of these Eu-
ropean soldiers there remains no ele-
ment of prosperity or even of tenn
porary merriment. Not one restau-
rant or saloon where money usually
changes hands is created by their
presence. Everything remains as
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