The Portland daily press., 1867-12-04
Miscellany.
The Mad Hupsburus.

Archduke Maximilian's body was delivered
to Admiral Tegethof on the 9th of Noyem-
Der. CHASTITY details are given of the condi-
ton OF the corpse, and it disgusts one to read
that defects in the features were repaired ar
titcially. There have been strange associa-
lions between Death and the Austrian Princes
for centuries, and these associations. it is sum-
posed, were introduced among the Hapsburgs
by crazy Juana, daughter of Ferdinand and
lsabeila, OF the SPANS, who married the Arch
duke Philip, son of the Emperor Macmillan
l., and father of Charles V. She carried her
husbands body about with her for many
years, in the hope that lite would be restored
to it. The insanity with which she was az
nicted descended to most of her posteritv, and
mas frequently manifested itself in the ghast-
hest OF forms. Charles v. and his son, Phil
Up II, suffered from it, as Charles's conduct
at Yuste shows; and the immortal Escorial.
ihat eighth wonder of the world, was moth
ing but Philips insanity in stone. When
Phl1ps 1llegitimate brother, the famous Don
John OF Austria, died in the Netherlands. tbe
king had the corpse cut into three parts. and
sent to Spain, where the remains were wired
together, and the body dressed magniicently,
and standing erect, supported by martial
staff had an interview with Philip. IS
The last Austrian Spanish sovereign,
Charles III, who was mad in every sense. had
his first wife's tomb opened lust before his own
death, and gazed on the embalmed body. If
would be possible to fill columns with lllnstra-
lions OF the fondness of the Austrian Princes
lor connecting themselves with the dead
though in some of their number this form of
melancholy madness has been less prominent
than in others. Even Maria Theresa, the
Empress Queen, who died within living MEM
DRY, November 20, $780, suffered from il.
She survived her husband, Francis of Lor-
raine, fifteen years, and repeatedly she caused
herself to be lowered In chair into the vauIt
OF the church of the Capuchins, where he was
buried; and on the last of these descents
among the dead the rope broke, which she in
Ierpreted as remonstrance from him against
her return to the living world. HE wants to
Keep me with him." she said 81 shall soon
come, and she did in few days. Yet
FRANCIS had been grossly untaithful to her,
ana Immediately alter his death she said to
ms last young and beautiful mistress, the
Frlncess Acknowledgment "We have in
deed suffered ii great loss" The Archduke
Maxlmlllan is said to have inherited the
gloomy imagination of his race, and frequep
~ TO have been troubled by 'thick coming fsn-
cles, so that when he stood face to face
with Death, at Queretaro, he saw only sn old
acquaintance. The German Caesars WIRE and
are as mad as were the Roman C@sa,s IT Il
a tolerably comprehensive CONNIE ntarv on
Tue supposed superiority Of heredity nv GOVERN
ment over all other politics, that the Greatest
OF european reigning families,--a family that
al one Tune seemed in fair way to bring ali
the civilized world under its sceptre,-and NOT
a small part of the uncivilized world besides
shoulq nave been mac for centuries. and
Ton Traveller.