Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-13
MAMMALIAN ard Ills Generals--HOv they
Passed their imprisonment.

| MAMMALIAN ard Ills Generals How they
Passed their imprisonment.
From Queretaro letter to the New
York Herald, written previous to the
reported execution of Macmillan, we
clip the following paragraphs:
BlAxnImIAN's PRISON. fa.
A stranger might search Queretaro
over for the Convent of the Capuchina
and fail to find it. By successive spoil
ations and breakings up it has long
since lost all traces of coDventual APP
pearance. Once it may have been, aud
probably was, a stately building OF
great extent and imposing exterior.
Now, nothing remains but a row of dis
iointed houses of eccentric architectural
DEVELOPMENT. Ia one of the most
comfortable of these Macmillan and
his generals are confined. They have
been relieved from cODsmunidqd, the
solitary confinement and double guard,
which IN this country usually precede
execution, and are allowed, under GER.
tain restrictions, to see civilian friends,
The number of their vi.itors is few
few. indeed. If the ex-Emperor was
not previously undeceived as to the ex-
tent of the affection which evil coun-
sellers always assured him the Mexican
people bore towards him, ms is so now.
None of the Mexicans who fawned on
and fiattered him In prosperous days
come to see him now; none but for
eigners care sufficiently for his fate to
risk liberal displeasure by inquiriDg
after him.
A GLIMPSE AT THE CAPTIVE.
OF all the reverses which the proud
house of Hapsburg has of late expe
rienced this is the saddest and worst.
A scion of that imperial stock shut up
in q six-by-nine dungeon, and cOmpell-
ed to ask his life at the hands of a Mex
lean Indian, who possibly never knew
his father, speaks no tongue but his
own. aud has absolutely no idea of the
divine right of kings. and emperors.
Maximilian's chief companion is Prince
Salm-S alm, so well remembered in the
Army of the Cumberland, and who
proved himself during the seige one of
the best and bravesG officers in the
whole imperial service. Together they
sit and play ecdrte, or discuss with vivid
interest, not their own probable fate,
but the politics of Germany and Ameri
ca. With all the vlcissitudes of his for
tune the Archduke loses none of his
warm sympathy for the United States.
and everything American has
a strange attraction for him. He listens
TO Prince Salm-Salm's "reminiscences of
the great war with rapt attention ana
hearing the story of Chickamuga, At
lanta and Vicksburg, often expresses
his longing TO visit the scenes of such
events. Then, the subject
German politics will come
upon the carpet, and Macmillan, with
grave deprecatory face, will bemoan the
the short-sightedness and reactionary
of his brother, the Austrian |
Emperor, advancing statements on his |
own part broad and liberal enough for
any Fourth of July Grafton. A strange !
picture, is it not Macmillan, tall and |
erect still, his blue eyes kindling and |
his great blonde beard quivering with |
excitement. while Salm-Salm, from |
whose eye the inevitable eye-glass has |
fallen in the earnestness of the moment |
speaks Of some of the leading episodes |
Of the American war, and with the |
of true bravery claims for him |
self only spectators part in the ac-
tiOns he so wildly describes. A Mexi- |
can dungeon encircles the while and |
court martial composed, they say, of |
three captains and lieutenant-cOionel, |
only awaits tie word of LOng-edred Esco-
bedo, the ex-mule driver, to condemn
them to death.
HIS INDIFFERENCE TO LIFE.