The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-30
Correspondence of N. Y. World.
MACMILLAN AND CARLOTTA.
PARIS. October 8.


is the insanitv-apparently well >estab-
! ished-of Charlotte, wife of him who
| claims to be Emperor of Mexico.
II is the last strange incident of an
| unfortunate career, claimed to be, when
| the Emperor of France sprung it upon
the world, Il 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 I have obtained upon the
conduct of Charlotte during her stay
in Paris, and in Italy, in order that l
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 wearing ofwhich
Maxinilian may have q show to come
home. Not even an emperor can stay
away from his afflicted wife.
I am 10th to believe this, because the
well known vanity of the late Arch
dukes lady would prevent her from
drawing upon herself the pity of the
world. Certainly no positive good
could come of this ruse, but possibly re-
lief for the tormented husband, who is
believed to be the shivcring prisoner of
the implacable Bazaine, kept u monarch
against his will, as NIontezuma was de-
tanned by Cortes in the same spot more
than three hundred years ago. For 1T
is evident that the Mexicans would
take no more kindly to the Emperor
because his wife was crazy; nor would
the world at large believe i'll this power
20 pacify the tropics any more because
his family was one after another going
out of their head in the sheer despera-
ton of the job.
The next news will be, most proba-
bly,, that Macmillan himself is crazy
though the small distribution of brains
in his family disallows this at second
thought. To dethrone reason there
must be a reasonable bulk to it, and
the man who could abdicate all his
rights in Austria at the invitation Of 4
foreign sovereign transport himself to
Il ruined and mutinous realm; make
himself spectacle raised to pinnacle;
then chained down to it; then slammed
at last hurled down to hollow laughter,
and trickling through its mockery the
most terrible echoof endured maniacy,
for whom the deception had been too
great for the minds life! he must in
deed he, in his own conceit, of all idiots
the greatest of all untortuuates the
poorest!
This poor woman-a beggar among
Kings-husbandless, portionless, will
get from all women forgivness and
sympathy. She has prayers said for
her now that were rcproaches when she
was at the height OF her little season
of glory. Even poor, duped MaXimil-
ian will be pitied rs man and hus-
band, if not as a monarch. But the in
dignation of the world will turn upon
Louis Napoleon, who has thus broken
the repose of a quiet and noble family
to make them the puppets OF Il vague
and treacherous policy, out or which he
alone could draw applause, but they
certain ruin. Macmillan and Charlotte,
at Miramar, were a peaceable, molten
sive couple; they had no more idea of
Mexico than of Cochin China, both of
which, by the way, Louis Napoleon,
obedient to his restless and chated soul,
was stirring up. The Arch-Duchess
was a vain and pleasant Brussels lady,
who spent the better part of her time
in feeding doves and raising a quariums.
She was fond of company and French
novel, and her husband, with the
strange idea that he possessed some tai
ent or other, read good deal, looked
out TO sea, went fishing, plotted fortif-
cations, and otherwise lived harmless |
and well-contented life, not of great |
consequence to any body, but fair, as
king and kings brothers 60 in this past
age Of demOcratics.
Suddenly there came an unsolicited |
voice, saying; "Sir and Madame, be-
hold! Il crown for you. You shall |
prey upon the tropics thousand years,
have an army for nothing. I will under
take to get you recognitions, start you
loans, send you across in my ships, and |
all out of the purest love in the world. |
l am the great Peace Sovereign, come |
to bind up the differences of sovereigns, |
reward the deserving, heal the broken !
hearted, and see that everybody is hap
py!'
Mr.. Seward could hardly have ex-
pressed it all so generously.
In point of fact, Louis Napoleon had
already found that Mexico was poor
old turkey, an indigenous and abomila-
bic nuisance, giving neither eggs nor
milk, much less honey, and that every
drop of any nutritious thing about it
ilHbO bCCA SIuCCLcu OuG VI ULlC
by his own soldiers
The sequel, you know now this state
burlesque has narrowed 10 domestic
and the poor little woman
coming home a month ago, beggared
and frightened, threw herself at the
Emperor's feet, then entreated the En-
press, ran at last to the Pope, and
wrote vain letters home to Vienna and
Brussels. Repulsed everywhere, and
in the end, particularly, when the Pope
refused to sanction the only good acts
ever did-viz: refusing to
give up the country to the clergy,
Charlotte fell into Mysteries in the halls
of the Vatican, was put into carriage
and driven off to her hotel, and contin
ues the victim of the drear1est, most
hopeless hallucinations. Macmillan
will, of course, come home, if Bazaine
permits him. He cannot be assured of