El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-05

com panied by retlnue OF French AM
Austrian officers and by some Mexican
| whose sympathies for monarchy sur
| vived the fall of the Emperor Itu bide'
government. There was great re
joicing among the prospective courtier
on board the imperial convoy. The
young and dssbing Maximillian anG
his beautiful bride were the cynosure
of all eyes. Napoleon, Who had him
self hum bugged the French through 6
plebiscite had carried out q similar
coup d'etat of preparatory character
in Mexico. In order to give the new
empire a quasi popular approval by
prete ding Ito permit the Mexicans to
freely choose their form of govern
WAS carefully predicated in advance,
aud as in the case of NopoleoD's pie
biscite, voted for under the sheen OF
French bayOnets, he had really deceiv-
ID Macmillan as to the real wishes o1
the American people. When the MBx-
imilian party therefore arrived at
Vera Cruz the imposing pageant which
was gotten up did not down the riotous
feelings of d sapproval, nor satisfy the
feen susplcious'that were aroused. If
Maximilian's government could res
tore the rule of the church AMI force
the liberals under Juarez to respect
The supremacy of fanasical priests his
government would be welcomed with
pen arms by the clericals. They &C
;ordingly prevailed upon Macmillan
20 issue what is known as the s'Biack
Oecree"-so called because it was the
conception of black gowned priests-to
the effect that al liberals under Juar-
q were to be treated as outlaws.
Bszaine, who WAS then commanding
the French troops. soon saw that the
drawer man than BaZsiue, refused to
10 so, and was backed in his attitude
by tie priests, who foresaw in the
downfall of the empire the future spoil
alton OF the church, which actually
rook place as we all remenbe under
the restoration of the rule of JuareZ.
Macmillan held on feeling confident
that some com bination of these Euro
plan powers, whose good faith was
pledged to his venture, would preserve
his empire. At this junction the Emp
ress Carlotta, seeing her husbands
plight, proceeded to Europe to seek aid
and to claim the priva' e fortune which
her father. who had just died, had left
to her and to her two brothers, and
which with true womanly devotion she
was prepared to use in pr omotipg her
husbands amb tions.
She proceeded to Breste en- route to
Rome, but soon after arTiv al in Breste
she learned that her brother, the pres
ent king Of the Belgians, was opposed
to sinking this joint legacy In the
Mexican experiment of hi brother-in-
law. On reading the lett,r in which
this sad news was broache' the en-
press tainted, but she still resol ved to
push on to Rome aud make final ap-
peal to Plus TX to sustain the EN- pire
himself and Napoleon has plan
ned. She hoped that his
holiness would urge the Mexican
clergy (whO were by this time trying
Enthusiastically to learn the direct
lion in (which ,the cat was going to
Jump the necessity for renewed efforts
In the cause of her imperial husband.
Plus | x declined to co anything and
poor Carlotta was there and then seiz-
ed in the pope's presence with fit of
paralysis from which she never racov-
cred. The hesitation of Plus, howeve-,
did not avert the spoliation he feared.
Soon afterwards the Mexicans, aided
oy American influence, recovered con-
troll of their country. They turn
ed the weapons Macmillan had
forged in the 'black decree" against
himself. He was captured at Que-e-
taro, tried by court-martial ana SEN
ter ced to be shot: Standing before
paid the penalty that should by right
have befallen those who used or be-
trayed him. His last words were
poor Carlo;t,! - And Poor Carlot q
during all these thirty-two years ba,
never learned her Draw husband g fate.
Struck down by the shock of human
per6dy and ingratitude and by the
successive misfOrtunes of romantic
fate, the Empress Maximilian has
since suffered from the madpess that
seized her in the vatican. She con-
tinues to seek to this day cher beloved
amidst those happy
scenes of their early welded happiness
within the castle he built at Miramar
Thus ended Napoleon's mad dream
Of q Latin empire in Mexico the
downfall of which vindicated the wis
dom of the doctrine of Monroe. The
bulk of the private fortune of Carlotta
was afterwards invested by her brother
In the equipment OF Stanley and in the
discovery and development of the Con-
go, which thus secures to Bels ium an
empire in the very heart of Africa.
Thus the money that would have been
invested to plant the SEA- of European
1espOtism in the new world has been
used to carry the lamp of light and of
to the dark continent,
where it is earnestly hoped NAV be
found also some room for Spain.
SIERRA Madre Line to the Yaqui Gold Fields