The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-11-07
The Empress Charlotte Her Behavior

IN rARIS-HER INSANITY.
PARIS, October 9-The great topic of the day is
tho insany-apparentl we'll establshed-of Char
otte wife of him who claims to be emperor of Mexico.
1t is the last strange incident of an unfortunate
curecr claimed to be-when the emperor of France
sprung it upon the word- masterpiece of smartness,
but which, going along from evil to evil, has probably
been the ruin OF the dupes Of it.
! have tried to-day to put together the notes haye
obtained upon the conduct of Charlotte during her
stay here in Paris and in Italy, in order that might
determine whether this alleged insanity is real or
counterfeit.
Two opinions prevail With regard to it. Very many
believe it to be a mask through the temporary
ing of which Maximilian may have a show to come
home. Not even emperor eau stay away from his
afflicted wife.
! am 10th to believe this because the we'll known
vanity Of the late archkes lady would prevent her
fiom drawing upon herself the pity of the world.
Certainly no positive good could come from this ruse,
but possibly relief for the tortured husband, who is
believed to be the Shiyerng prisoner OF the inplacabe
Bazaine kept monarch against his will, as Montezu-
ma detained by COrez the same spot more than
three hundred wears ago For it is evident that the
Nexcans would take no more kindly to the emperor
because bis wife was crazy; nor would the world at
large believe in his power to pacfy the tropics any
more because his family were one after another gong
gut Of their head in the sheer desperation of the job
The next news will be, most probably, that MaXmll.
ian himself crazy; though the small distribution Of
brains in lis family disalows this at second thought
To dethrone reason there must be reasonable bulk to
It, and the who could abdicate all his rights i'll
Austria invitation of foreign sovereign transport
himself Il ruined and muIHOuS realm; make him
self spectacle; raised to pinnacle then chained
down to it, then shamed at last hurled down to hol
low laughter, and trcklng through its mockery the
most terrible echo of endeared mauacy for whom the
deception had been too great for the minds life He
must indeed be, in his concet of all idiots the
greatest; of all ufOrtunates the poorest.
H This poor wOman-a beggar among kings-husband-
less, portonlesS, will get from all women sympathy
She has prayers said for her that were reproaches
wien she was at the height of her little season Of
glory. Even poor, dipped Maxnilian will be pitied a5
Il man and husband, but not as monarch But tho
indignation of the world will turn upon Louis Napo
leon, who has thus broken the repose of quiet and
noble family TO make them the puppets of a vague
and treacherons policy, out OF which he could d9aw
applause, but they certain ruin. Maxmilian and
Charlotte, at Mramar were pcaccable in5ttensive
coupe they had no more idea of Mexico than Of
Cochin China, both Of which, by tue way Louis Ma
poleOn, obedient to his restless and chafed soul was
stirring up. The archducheSs a yain.aHd pleasant
Brussels lady, who spent the better part 81 her time in
feeding doves and raising aquariums She was fond
of company and French novel, and her husband,
with the strange idea that he possessed talent or
other read good deal looked out to sea went fish
ing, plotted fortifcaton, and otherwise lived harmless
and wellconeutcd life, not of great consequence to
anybody but fair, kings and kings brothers 90 in
this fast age Of democracies.
suddenly there came unsolicited voice, wing:
:" Sir and madame, behold crown for you. You
shall prey upon the tropics thousand years. have an
army for nothing. | will undertake get you reoog-
milton, start you loans, send you in my ships
ard all out of the purest love III the world. am the
great peace sovereign bind up the differences
Of soveregns, reward the deserving, heal the broken
hearted aud see that everybody is happy"
j Mr. Seward could hardly have expressed it all SO
genialy.
/ In point of fact Louis Napoleon had already found
that Mexico was poor old turkey, ingenious and
abominable nuisance, giving neither eggs Cor milk,
much less honey, and that every drop of any nutri-
tious thing about it had been squeezed Of the re-
public by its soldiers.
The sequel, you know; how this state buresque has
narrowed TO domestic tragedy, and the poor little
woman coming home a month ago, beggared and
frightened threw herself the emperoFs feet, then
entreated the empress, at last to the pope, and
wrote vain letters home to Vienna and Brussels Re
pulsed everywhere and in the end particularly when
the pope refused sanction the only good acts Maxi
milan did-viz: refusing to give up the country
the clergy Charlotte fell into Mysteries in the halls
of the Vatican, pat into carriage and driven OF
to her hotel and continues the victim of the dreaFies
most homeless hallucinato-= Macmillan aiN, gf
course, cgle home, if Baaiae permits him. He cau-
not be assured o. these occurrences ana keep g.
fools bench longer, ff 81, ha sill become aa cos
tamptbe as a man is lte ugv q moaafy5.