Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-09

This is his message to pOsterity.
Followed in due order, what this title
loving people call, their Imperial Royal
llighnesses, the most serene Lords, Arch
dukes, and fegethoff and the staff, and the
Consnls Save and except the Consul OF the
United Siaies) and great mob Of official
people Of great importance at home, but
whose names would not thrill transat-
lantic public
So they moved through asorrowing pop-
ulation. The Auslrian-Italians cry easily
and love spectacles. The train left Trieste
at o'clock, and in thiry-one hours was
NJ the Belyidere line.
In Vienna, for the past fortnight, prepa-
raiions have been going forward in the
lettering, Austrian fashion. Little was ae-
complished until yesterday, when necessity
spurred the free-and-easy officials into
something like activity. The undertaker's
establishment, the Pompes FHnebres of vi
emma, begged permission of the govern-
ment TO decorate, in their own way and at
their own expense, she Nolive Church,
which stands iust ontside the Schotten
Thor This beautiful Gothic structure is
one OF the most conspicuous monuments OF
the late Archduke Ia Vienna II was his
vu.a... ts.. . lud lf4isinal affection that in
augqrated the moYemen! for building it in
1853 after the proVidential escape OF the
Emperor from The hands of an assassin.
The Emperor was leaning over the old
bastion bv the harnthner Thor-the Co
rinthian Gate-looking at Ia squad of sol
diers passing below, when sallow
and dyspeptic Hungarian tailor, crazed
by the fusilades of Buds and the
gallows of Arad-and reason enough to go
mad, one would say-approach him from
behind, ard dealt him a savage blow in the
back of the neck. The point Of the knife
hit the buckle Of the Emperor's stock, and
he was rot damaged, except in his nerves.
Had that buckle been a half inch 10 the
right OF the left, Msximilian would have
been to-day the Liberal Constitutional
Emperor of Austria. But not being EN-
peror, he was a good brother, and founded
this "Chureh Of the Savior" TO commemo-
rate his brothers escape from the dagger
of treason. The subscriptions languished
after the ATchduke left Vienna, and for the
last few years the admiring tourists have
seen no growth in its delicate proportions
of purest Gothic, looking in its fresh un-
finished beauty like marvellous toy ruin.
But to-day il has assumed strsmge and
sinister appearance. over the scafiOlding,
on its unfinished square towers, hang innu-
merable black banners. The doors are
turned into dark ehapels, with lights and
cruci6xes.
Yesterday wes a warm, misty, thswy
day. The town, always eager for an ex-
cuse for doing nothing, in a great measure
left OFF work one day ia advance, and
loafed in the slushy streets. Toward night
q vast crowd gathered near the depot of the
Southern railway, where, after several
hours of waiting, the funeral train came in
from Trieste. They had been delayed by
snow on the Semmering Pass The pro-
cession moved from the outer Notifications
through the Wieden Yorstadt, past the gay
Belvedere palace and the SchWarizenberg
quarter, between solid walls of sol
diery, who had stood immovable AZ
statnes from till TO- The coffin was borne
on a superb car drawn by six spotless black
horses. Hussars Of the Imperial Guards
accompanied the cortege hearing lighted
torches, that threw weird and flickering
| light npoR the glittering arms and nodding
| plumes. To the wailing notes Of dirges
/ llltf IllNtu liOlN the HtnilED INTO tue inner
city. The Emperor met them at the pal.
ace doors, and the corpse was horne by 0
| guard Of honor 10 the Imperial Chapel
Here the crowd of courtiers were shut out
and the Imperial family alone admitted lC
the presence Of the dead brother and son
| BY the side of the sarcophagus was arrayed
! a little couch, where the Archduchess So.
| phia was TO spend the night in the dumb
society of her well-beloyed child.
This morning the coffin was moved tc
| the catafalque in the Palace Church, and
the noble and official world, and after them
| the people were admitted 10 gaze on the
| hlackened features once so familiar TO all
/ Al o'clock this afternoon the funeral
cOrtege moved from the Palace through
the cramped and crooked alley of the
| Spiegel-und- X lostergasse 10 the Church OF
the Capueines in the Mehlmarkt. The inn
perial family, the high dignitaries OF the
Empire, and the diplomatic body had pre-
yieusly assembled in the church, whose
narrow aisles were evidently never built
ior great ceremonies. The coffin, during
the nnal funeral services, rested in the cen
tral aisle, before the high altar. To the
right sat the Emperor and the Arohdukes
Behind than Tegethoff, henceforth Count
Won TegethoiE officers Of the marines. del
egations Of the different regiments of which
Max. was Colonel. To the left the great
officers of State, the diplomatic BODY, and
the only two ladies inviied-Conntesse
Itchy and kolonitz, ladies Of honor in the
Imperial Court of Mexico.
The final prayer was said and the hnal
hymn sung The coffin was lifted from
| the gigantic caiafalque and borne to its las
rest in the crypt. No one followed but tn,
Imperial family. The assembly sat il
silence in the dnsky, blsek-draped church
The court ceremonial informs US that insid
the royal vault TIE coffin was closed for
ever by one high chamberlain, and tn
golden key was solemnly given into tn
keeping of another court functionary; an'
the ashes Of the Archduke, afaer mRn.
wanderings by land and sea, throngl
strange peoples and under alien skies, wer
left TO their long repose.
In the dark crypt he sleeps with hi
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