The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-14
From the Atlanta (Ga) Intelligencer. !
The Empress CarIOtta,

| Very few persons who have traced the
1 Empress CarlOtta- from the day she sailed on
| the ill-starred Mexican expedition to that
saddest day other life when She sat, Ophelia-
like, at the Vatican gates, discrowned
disheveled, insane-very few persons we
say, will read without pain that her case is
hopeless, and her young life passed into
shadow. There is not more mournful pa0e
/ in all imperial history, and none so full of
suggestion. Her story has the same pathos
as that ofZenobia, for every good fairy had
clustered about her cradle, save one, and that
absentee the ostpoweTtul the most pitilesS
of all. She was the daughter of a King; her
beauty was proverbial the best ofthe Haps-
burgs, so amiablea prince that even naughty
Nenetians who scorned the Kaiser doffed
their bOnnets to the Admiral of the Fleet,
Wooed and won her. Her wealth was i'm
mense, and she lived in palace famous
for its loVelness. and still more famous for
the loveliness, the virtue and the genius it
enshrined. She was poet, too, and Mira
mar was her Arcadia. Had she 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, passage from earth
with an undimmed mind. With such sur
roundings as we have grouped above, who
would not have envied so splendid a prin-
cess, and not promised her a pathway
among mankind as Distinct and brilliant as
the pathway of the stars? 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.
II is well, when such sacrifice has been
made, to trace its origin, and, thus search-
ing, how will the Emperor Napoleon escape
eonyictionY His ruling ambition to unite
the Latin races and be their head. found.
as he supposed, an appropriate field in Mex
leo for the first experiment. Macmillan
and Carlotta became his agents, and are
now 10 be numbered among his victims.
The failure of the South to maintain her in
dependence caused this gorgeous scheme TO
perish, and. thwarted at home and abroad.
some hostages were demanded by the Flu
ries. and the demand was hOnOred Ia due
form, The Imperial plotter ekes out his
days at Paris with dramatic show 10 rival
the aeath scene OF Augustus while his vic
tins hurled from power and BETRAYED In
sorest need, the one a gloomy recllIse at
Ofizaba' the other, wreathed with rue and
pansy, queening IL with hollow mockcry al
Allramar TO laugh, but smile no moren
II Is the old, old story over again. II is
the same terrible lesson which history re-
peats: III vain, of lilies yieissitudes aud the
nnhallowed selftshness of the juggerpaut.
Ambition. IL is the eternal strife betISpen
envy and content, tenching in their ruth
less sequel the emptiness Of earthly asnira-
ton, and how II Is possible for the crown
to be "a bruising as the cross-how sub.
stantial happiness, obscure and humble
though II be, is worth a world of incerti-
tude and the ransom of a million thrones.