The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-12-21
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The Empress CarIOtta.

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Very few persons who have traced
the Empress cArlotta, from the day
she sailed Oh the ill-stArred Mexican
expedition, to that ssddest day of her
life when she sat, ophelia-likO, at the
Vatican gates, discrowned, dishevsled,
insane-very few persons, NE say, will
read without pain that her case is hope
less, and ber young life passed into
shadow. There is not a more mourn
ful page in all imperial history, and
none 80 full of suggestion. Her story
has the same pathos as that of Zenobia
for every good fairy had clustered
about her cradle, save one, and that
absentee the most powerful, the mOst
pitiless Of all, She was the daughter
of King her beauty was proverbisl;
the best of the Hapsburgs, 60 amlable
prince that even naughty Venetians
who scorned the Kaiser doffed their
bonnets to the Admiral of the Fleet,
woed and won her. Her wealth was
immense, and she lived in palace ia
nous for its lovcliness, and still more
famous for the loveliness, the virtue
and the genius it enshrined. She was a
poet, too, and Miramer was her Area
dia Had sho been born among the
lowly, her mental gifts would have
brought her the reputation that comes
from song, and, alas that which is
forever denied her, a passage fr om
earth with an undimmed mind. With
such surroundings as we have grouped
above, who would not have envied 80
splendid princess, and not promised
her pathway among mankind as dis
tinct and brilliant as the. pathway of
the stars2 But, for some inscrutable
purpose this has been refused, and the
accomplished princess wears her crown
no more, the virtuous wife can never
recognize her mate, the sweet song of
the royal poet has turned to hollow
moan.
Itis we'll when such o sacrifice has
been made, TO trace its origin, and thus
searching. how will the Emperor Ma.
poleon escape conviction 2 His ruling
ambition TO unite the Latin races and
be their head. found, as he supposed an
appropriate field in Mexico for the first
experiment Macmillan and Carlotta
became his agents, and are now to be
numbered among his victims. The fail.
ure Of the South to maintain her inde
pendenee caused this gorgeous scheme
to perish, and, thwarted at home anc
abroad, some hostages were demanded
by the Furies, and the demand wal
honored in duo form. The Imperia
| plotter ekes out his days at Paris with
q dramatic show TO rival tho death
scene Of Augustus while his victims,
hurled from power and betrayed IN So
rest need, the one a gloomy reoluse at
Orizaba, the other, wreathed with rue
and pansy, queening itwith hollow
mockery at Miramar, to "laugh but
smile no more" t.-...-..
1t is tho old, old story over again. 1t
is the same terrible lesson which his
tory repeats, in vain, Of life's vicissi-
tudes and the unhallowed selfshness
of the juggernaut, Ambition. 1t is tho
eternal strife between envy and con-
tent, teaching in their ruthless sequel
the emptiness of earthly aspiration and
how it is possible for the crown to be
as brusing as the cross--how substan-
tial happiness, obscure and humble
though it be, is worth world of in
certitude and the ransom ofa million
thrones H4 'sfH