Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-03
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'MAxIMILIAN.

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.,.l' MAXIMILIAN.
.E40TIOFTkI9aIG
The Last Days of the Ex.Ernperor
q How EHe Lived In Poison and
What He Pnrposed e Doing
GIimpses of His Fellow Captives
lost -;5- Leaves from Queretaro.
The Dispatch to che Austrian Min
vIv& -1-,rr tster. s7o H2E
o.oT ,z7 WASHINGTON, June 30olS67l, .
Si"e' - '"u ..1i 11:30 O'Clock p. NJ.
An AUSTRIAN steam sloop-of-war from
Vera Cru arrived at Southwest Pass.
;atgthei NJ ssissippi delta, on the morn
ing OF Olle 29th, with her, flag al
halt-mast and draped in mourning. TIE
fact was telegraphed from New Orleans
yesterday, the dispatch also stating that 8
telegram was landed for the Austrian Gov
eminent. The telegram was received al
the Austrian legation in this city last even
ing, and was at once transmitted by the
ecableto the Austrian court, as stated in
these dispatches last night. The following
is copy of the telegram referred to: =
81 Sou1H w est Pass, LA, June 80 1867.
Tothe Austrian Ambassador, W ashington, d. c..
have just come in Co telegraph you OF
the condemnation and execution of Maxi
milan.
his body. .5 RS NJ. TH1BAur,
55-5 20 i97r-s Captain Austrian NAVY.
= The execution of the Emperor Maxi
milan forms the absorbing topic of CONVEX
sation this evening in diplomatic circles.
Tde particulars are looked for with great
interest, and it is understood that the Aus
trian Charge d'Affairs has telegraphed to
the officer commanding the sloop- -of-war
now at New Orleans, requesting him to
furnish the details. deg 7o
SpeculatiOns To the Probable TruiIi
OF the RumOr-The Prison Life of tb
Imperial Captive-Lost Leaves from
QueretarO. II e.7td+ -E= =a1sa
The reported execution of Maximilian is
probably true. The news comes in just
such way as one knowing tile country
would expect. There is no inconsistency
In the dates and no improbability in the
story. If the unhappy Prince was shot in
Queretaro on the 18th inst, it would take
just about as many days as it seems to have
taken to get the news here and one of the
Austrian frigates lying off Vera Cruz would
certainly be the first to put to sea with the
tidings. AS to the inherent likelihood of
the story. special correspondent of the
Herald, writing from the actual scene of
operations on the Sd of the present month,
puts the case in this light: :
In, what way the question of life and
death will finally be decided is a strong
case of QliepSdbe. After dili9ent watch
ing of the signs and personal conference
with those who have che best information
on the subject, | am convinced that moth
ing will be done for at least a week or two
yet. Nothing but -postponemehts to ma
mana and nadndnd. l am further convinced
that President JuareZ. If he can, will spare
the ex-Emperor's life. The question is,
can he? This must be determined by
watchi1g the disposition of the army after
the fall of Mexico and Vera Cruz. IF their
temper remain then as now any attempt
on the part of Juarez to pardon Maxi
milan would cost him certainly bis gov
ernment-possiblyh his life-and inaugurate
another revolution. with Diaz or some
other military chieftan at the head of it.
The only alternative to the cry of sshoot
him." that hear everywhere among Mex
leans. is the suggestion that MACMILLAN
should be set free on payment of half the
national debt, or some other enormous
ransom. But this idea finds little favor. !
The immediate execution of Maximiian
and all his generals is what the army de-
mands, and what the people of chihuahua,
Sinaioa and Sonora are prepared to insist
upon at the swords point, consistent Juar-
lists though they have always been. Ju-
arez has on the one hand to dread the re- |
volt of his armies. already sufficiently in
subordinate, and the commencement of an |
other revolution; on the other hand. he
has to fear the loss of sympathy of the Uni
ted States and the banded hostility of all |
the Powers of Europe. 1t is decidedly an
awkward predicament. The only way out
of it is to delay and delay, until one or
other of the opposing forces gains deci- |
ded ascendancy, until he can place himself
above the fear of. his army, resting ON the |
protection. of the United States, or till he !
IS prepared by the aid of his army to defy
the hostility of the United States and
Europe combined. -. .,..----r nj. f.
1t may be-, therefore, that the pressure
has grown too strong for Jaurez to stand
against it, and that to save his own life he
has Gaken Maximilian's; or, on the other
hand, it is quite probable that Escobedo,
who is described as acting without much
reference to the opinions of the central
government, has shot the ex-Emperor on
his own responsibility. Thus much in fa-
vor of the news being true. Per contra, it
should be remembered that if the govern
ment intended to spare MaXimilian's life
they might find it necessary to circulate
reports of his death, so as to head off any
possible rising among their own troops,
and possibly may wish to find out how the
United States would be likely to act in the
his generals. There is one very singular
fact that confirms this idea. No one will
have forgotten that very singular procla-
nation of Maximilian's which caused so
much comment few days ago. That proc
lanation was bogus, as we suspected at
the time; but the strangest part of the bus
mess is that 1t was circulated on the Rio
Grande and sent to the United States be-
fore it was allowed to. appear in San Luis
Potosi, the seat OF the JuareZ government,
where 1T originated. Undoubtedly the
idea was to see how Maximilian's allu-
sions to his approaching death would be
be received in the States. On the whole,
then, the probabilities stand thus: 1t is
-eeEtain that an Austrian frigate has
sEN5aght from Mexico the report of the exc
cution of the eX-Emperor. 1t is nearly
curtain that that report is well founded,
though there may still be a loophole for
doubt. In six or seven days more, assum-
ing the news to be true, we shall probably
be put in possession of the details from the
pen of an eye witness. Meanwhile the
Herald correspondent who made the cam
paign with MaXimilian, writing from Que
retaro. under date of June l, furnishes the
following deeply interesting particulars
of the prison life and prospects of the ex-
Emperor at that date. ,:.--,,-'4 - f-- .'i
MAxIMILIAN's PRISON.
A stranger might search Queretaro over
for the Convent of the Capuchina and fail
to find it. By successive spoliations and
breakings up, it has long since lost all
traces of conventual appearance. Once it
may have been, and probably was, a stately
building of great extent and imposing eX
terror. Now, nothing remains but row
of di,jointed houses of eccentric architec
tural development In one of the most
comfortable of these Maximilian and his
generals are confined. They have been re-
lieved from c0nt,lluI,idGd, the solitary con-
1inement and double guard, which in this