The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-11
Closing Scenes of the Mexican Empire.


Closing Scenes OF the Mexican Empire.
From the Herald
From its opening to its closing scenes the
history of the Mexican empire has been a
development of the idea in Burns famous
Ines:-
The best laid schemes o. mice and men
Gang aft a.gley,
Austria, at the instigation of other European
monarchies, and with the aid of France. seized
he opportunity apparently afforded by the
great civil war in which the United States
were involved, to do despite TO the Monroe
doctrine and place Maximilian upon throne
in Mexico. But while our civil war has re-
suited in the triumphant restoration of the
Union and the revival of the Monroe doctrine
a surprising variety of Kaleidoscope changes
in the fortunes of Macmillan has ensued.
Deserted by his European allies, who turned
a deaf ear even to the touching personal ap-
peals of the Empress Carlotta Maximilian has
witnessed the withdrawal of the French troops
and the gathering of the Liberal forces, against
which he has been compelled to fight almost
single-handed. In his gallant but Intellectual
struggle, surrounded and hemmed in at Que
retarO by the troops under command of
Juarez, he sees not only his throne tottering
to it fall, but his very life in peril.
Austria now hastens to bespeak in his
favor the protection of the United States Gov
ernment. Alarmed by the fate of the Impe-
rial prisoners at Zacatecas the Emperor of
Austria instructs his Minister at Washington
to request the Interference of the United States
Government in case the Emperor of Mexico
should be taken prisonerby the Liberals-acon-
tingency only too probable-in order to pre-
vent his execution, or the execution of any
of the Imperial troops that may become pri-
soners of war. On the 9th of April Count
Wydenbruck, the Austrian Minister, ad-
dressed communication to this effect to the
Secretary of State. Mr.. Seward replied on
the following day, informing the Minister that,
i'll compliance with the request of the Austrian
Government instructions, had at once been
telegraphed to Minister Campbell at New
Orleans, who had Immediately acknowledged
receiving the instructions, and in accordance
with them had despatched special courier to
Queretaro, by way of Tampico, to present to
President Juarez the remonstrance of the
United States Government, which desires that
all possible leniency shall be shown to Maxi
milan and his adherents in case they fall as
! prisoners into the hands of the Liberals.
Mr.. Seward deserves applause for the
! prOmptitude with which he has responded to
the appeal of the Emperor of Austria in be-
half of his unlucky brother. The people of
the United States will approve the action of
the Secretary of State in this affair even more
heartily than in the negotiations by which he
has secured for seven millions dollars per-
manent and inexhaustible ice-house beneath
the North Pole.
What curious double illustration of the
new and commanding position of the United
| States among the nations of the earth is offered
by Russia and Austria The one cedes to us
Russian America and the other invokes
our intercession in Mexico to save the life of
Maximilian. And what rousing reception
the New Workers will extend to the ex-Em-
peror on his safe arrival in this cityl Their
ovatiOns to Fanny Elssler, Jenny Lind, Kos
suth, Japanese Tommy, and even the Prince
| of Wales, will be utterly eclipsed by their well
come to the husband of CarlOtta.