The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-10
LATER FROM MEXICO.

Interview with Officers OF Maximilian's
Government - What They Say of the
Condition of the Countrywide Impe-
rial Farce Near the Close of the Last
Act-Maximilian Waiting at Orizaba
for Something to Turn Up-What the
Mextcans Think of General sherman's
Mission - Singular Stories About the
French and Austrian Officials - The
Colony of Southern ExiIes Broken Up.
Yesterday evening we had an interview with
u number OF gentlemen, Austrians by birth,
who arrived in this city by the steamer Man
haitian, from Vera Cruz, late Saturday evening,
on their way to Europe. They were all Of them
some directly and some indirectly, in the en-
plOy of ATchduke MaXimilian's Imperial Gov
ernment in Mexico, and bring some very sad,
some very amusing, and some very Interesting
tales. Among them are Mr. Joseph Wirth,
railroad contractor on the line load IRON Vera
Cruz to the City of Mexico; Mr. Alponse Bes-
kochka, a civil engineer; Messrs. Karnel,
Albert SChadeberg, and Stan lslaus Sabiz, officers
of Maxs Imperial Guard,n and Mr.. F. Braud-
staedter, topographic draughtsman. Mr..
joseph Werner, formerly general agent OF the
aforementioned railroad at Puebla de los
Angeles, and for a time cashier for the same
company at Orizaba, also gave us some lnte-
resting information though he had given the
cold shoulder 10 the Empire of Mexico" several
months ago, and resided Tor some weeks in this
country. Without vouching for everything
that these gentlemen have told us, we give
their tale in a connected form, and as near as
possible in their own words.
TEey say that the further continuance of the
Imperial force is an utter impossibility, though
MaXimilian still clings to the belief that the
complete anarchy which he expects will follow
his exit from Mexico, in consequence of the
rivalries of contending partisans and military
enleLs, may Set create % strong strong party iavorlhg
ally popular, and he seems now to hope that the
clergy and the clerical party generally would
yet find means to turn matters in his favor.
With this belief and this hope our informants
say, Macmillan, though contemplating a
speedy retreat from Mexican territory. has a
palace 10 be put IN readiness for him at Havana
where he is said to expect TO Iemain for some
time, awaiting, like Micawber, "lor something
TO turn upn that may bring him back his i'm
perial purple. During his stay at Havana, we
are also told, he proposes to make a tour, under
a strict tncognuo, through the United States of
which country he Is a great admirer. He often
expresses his wish to see the North American
republic and its people, whom he often called
the greatest practical people of the world.
Yet however strong his own hopes may be- ii
seems that his brother, the Emperor of Austria,
does not share them, and did not do so quite a
long time since, for, as Mr.. Werner informed us,
Captain Naute and Lieutenant Graves, of the
Austrian kigate DdndOtO, lying in the harbor of
Vera Cruz, told him nearly year ago that their
vessel had been specially sent there to bring
Max safely back to Trieste or Mlramar.
Neither is the trust which Macmillan puts in
his assumed personal popularity or that of the
Duchess Charlotte, as we are told, we'll founded.
Macmillan, soon after he arrived in Mexico,
a very in mperfect knowledge Of the character of
the MeSlcans and of the prominent Characters.
tics OF the partisan life of their political and
military leaders, for he made ii his avoWed
object to cOnclliate and unite all parties aud to
make OF the MeXicans a congruous and homo.
geueous people.
EzA nation torn by continuous revolutionary
strife for over forty years, fully of petty chiefs
aspiring to supreme command, cannot very
easily be made to forego its habits of plunging
almost yearly into renewed revolution and
sharchy. This was the great stumbling block,
ana ~ required more statesmanship and wiser
DISCRIMINATION than Macmillan apparently pos
@essed 70 remove it trom his path. The Mexi-
~. the Archduke, Tor they declare that like a
young maiden surrounded by fattering ad-
MIXERS, he coquetted with all parties. and
thereby lost the support and favor of ali
Even the Church, a clerical party whose SIM
Nort he still hopes will carry him back 10 the
throne is not unanimous in his favor; and al
the departure of our intormants from Mexico
they say it was no secret that a large and
the most influential portion OF the cleIlcals had
offered Miramon-lately returned TO MeXico-6
subsidy of from six to eight millions of dollars
IL he would assume the ireins of government
and continue the war against the Juarists anC
the Liberals.
But all parties, even those hostile to him from
the beginning, give him just credit for gooC
intentions. He escheWed state pomp, dressed
like Mexican, and was the most laborous mar
OF his Government" They say, however, tha
he spent his time and labor on unimportan
matters OF detail, and was unable 10 compre
bend and direct the grand whole Of what III
talked about % bis ''WisslSn'"