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10 ae FRANCE. The Great Religious Move- ment in France. PARIS AT CHURCH. The Republic Throwing Itself at the Feet of the Church, MMRACLES IN PARIS AND IN FRANCE. The Season of All Souls---Reli- gious Demonstrations at the Churches and Cemeteries. ‘Father Hyacinthe--His Posi- tion and Plans. DEPARTURE OF THE GERMANS. fhe War Upon the Army---New Foature in the Radical Programme. MARRIAGE OF ROCHEFORT. ‘Parties and Sections in the Assembly and ia the Bation—The Army, the Church and the People. Paris, Nov. 5, 1872. ‘RELIGION IN FRANCE. ‘When my tord.and king, the Count de Chambord, wrete the other,day in one of bis twelfth century episties that his heart was gladdened at the spectacle of such a revival of religion in France he anticipated largely the conclusions ef this correspondence. France is now pass- img through a cycle o: religions enthusiasm, and the churches are thronged and the priests walk the highways with beatified countenances. This refigious movement is one of the most interesting and impressive phases of French society. It is ‘widespread aud permeates all classes. France has een overwhelined with disaster; her armies have been destroyed and her territory despoiled; her great city has been ravaged by heathens who dese- erated her churches and sang the ‘‘Marseillaise”’ on the sacred steps of the altar. God's anointed priests—yea, the very princes of holy Rome—have deen shot to death in @ prison yard, and get France turns from it all and sinks mm sackcloth and asics at the feet of Jesns Christ. This is what the clergy will tell you, and it is very true. You have heard, of course, of the pilgrimage of Lourdes—now the Blessed Mother appeared in the city to wondering human eyes and announced herself to be the Immaculate Concep- tion.’? A hundred thousand French men and women have made pious journeys thither—the lame, the halt and the sick—to drink of the sacred waters, Ihave been told that hundreds have been cured. The water comes from a spring—an ordinary mountain spring—and is simple cold water, with- out any earth-composed quality of iron or lime or magnesia. But the Virgin blessed it with her pres- ence ana the faithful have been cured, and at ane shops. you can buy the water here if you have faith enough. Lourdes is in the Pyrenees, on the #panish frontier, and the Virgin appeared also in Salette, near the Itallan frontier. 1 Qavc not heard so much about Salette. It is hard wo reach by railway from Paris, and the pilgrims have preferred Lourdes, with its advantages in the way ot first class trains. Ido not venture to write about this miracle or express any opinion on the subject, my functions not being to discuss polemical theology. I tell you what I see, and with ali the respect that must be paid to every act of | faith, whether Roman, Mussulman or Buddhist. I ‘was speaking of it the other evening to my Iriend, @ keen and able Jesuit. ‘Believe it!” he said, with energy, and the faith o! Loyala flushing from his proud, burning eyes. “Believe it! Why not? Does not od manifest Himself now as in the early days? Do we not see every day the wonderful manifestations of His grace and love and power? Yes, my friends, not only at Lourdes, but here in this very Paris have we seen the work of God in a miraculous way. Withina few minutes’ walk of where we sit, under the shade ofthe Arch of Triumph, there was a great miracle performed last week. A maiden lay at the point of death from a sore grievous disease. Medicine couid do nothing for her. She was abandoned by science todeath. We gave her the last offices. At the same time our brotherhood performed a novena for her recovery. And at the very @our when the povena ended she rose and walked and partook of food. She is in perfect health, I saw her this morn- ing, and the concierge, a poor, hamble man, spoke with reverence of the miracle. We hear of these manifestations of Divine goodness every day, | almost every hour.” THE SRASON OF ALL SOULS, ‘Thijs is DOW the solemn season of All Souls; and, earious to observe the strange and interesting phe. gomena which pervade Paris, your correspondent fas been diligent in his observance of the duties of the season. I attended high ma&s in Notre Dame. Monseigdeur, the present Archbishop, sits on the throne of Darboy, while another prelate verve the mass. The noble old cathedral, gray ‘with ite centuries, was crowded. In the altars on the side priests were celebrating mass for the ben- efit of those who could not follow the pomp of the high service. There were soldiers and officers and citizens of all classes, and in front marshalled a group, three or four hundred in all, of the orphans ef Communists shot by the Versatiles troops and now folded into the arms of the Church. The chil- dren of some of the men who shot Archbishop Dar- boy were, no donbt, kneeling under his throne and receiving the benediction of his successor. From Notre Dame 1 went to St. Roche, the famous old church on Rue St. Honoré, where Napoleon began his career by cannonading the insurrec- tlonists who crowded the steps. Here the princes of the House of Orleans were assembled in wor ship, and the edifice was so crowded that it was on}# by an effort we could find a place of vantage. The old Grecian Madeleine was even more crowded than the others, mainly with the humbler classes, What I saw with my own eyes in these three fainous churches is confirmed by what I have heard from the others. Paris never showed such arcligious, devotional spirit as was shown at the festivals of All Sainte and All Souls. But there is even a more expressive and tender way of show- tng true devotion at this solemn season, It is the custom, as you know, in these countries of the Catholic persuasion to celebrate on All Saints’ Day i virtues of the dead, to pray espe- pose of their souls, and to visit their * wna decorate them with some token DEAD. I made a tour d graveyards, visiting tirst the cemetery oi Montmartre. This lies at the foot of the ‘amons hifl-—tamous sinee the time of the Ro- | mans, wii0 it the Mountain of Mars, The crowd was si ge that it was only by patience one could find his way. Here por thcophile Gautier was burio: other day—and many fresh jes were laid upon his new-made grave. In the | D Rentre of the cemetery w wore piled wreaths, lowers, cros#es made of beaus and cypress, three or four feet high, J was toid that here were deposited tokens to the memory ol those who had.no gpecial tomb, but rested ungcen, unkoown bot not unforgotten im the common grave, As I passed arouudit there was agroup of women in prayer—plain women, witli poverty and effort written in th we 4 token which she was about to place the common Muaue. The grave of Caveigac was a cr 88. Around it iv faces—euch holding a wreath | ou | covered with wreaths, but all have { tten r Du Saver, the cantor bf ia Pree whee pag? is He was shot a quarter of a eentary ago, in you have forgot- abo vier, for, my masters, this is-@ heediess, flippant world, and rolling on, and even memories die away. every one talked of Du Javier at the time, for he ‘Was the [riend of Dumas, and was about to marry Lola Montez, and edited La Presse and was a gifted Lola, who was a wonder in ber won- was agshe heard of the proposed duel, pushed to the Bois with pistols to fight her lover’s assailant, but her lover was dead when she arrived, and she received his pody from @ carriage. Don’t you remember it? Every one spoke of it twenty-five years ago, and now Lola, Dumas and all have gone, and Du Javier sleeps very quietly here under this Novernver sun, and not a wreath upon his tomb. Iam sorry to say that his inends nave forgotten him too. “PERE LA OMAISE.” And from cosey little Montmartre—where, if we had wishes on such a subject, it would be pleasant to find reat—we whirled to Pere la Chaise. But the forbidding clouds were in high anger and gathered ommously over the sky. ‘This world-renowned cemetery was besieged by a multitude of men and women—women particularly, A la ly of sol- diers aud policemen were in atten and the sidewalks were swarming wito dealers in those death-trinkets and mementocs, which they thrust upon you 4or a few sous. I presume more tamous men’ and women rest here than in any similar spot in the world except Westminster Ap ere You stroll along its avenues, and as you look to the right anu the lett and read the names written on the litile marble tenements of death you fee) as though you walked through the history of centuries. To name @ fragment would encumber this page. Ney, Macdonald, David, Kossini, Arago, De Musset, Davoust,- Kellerman, Bellini, Rachel, Moliere, La Fontaine, ine, Labodeyere, Scribe, Sayary, Cambacerts, Massena, Barras, Beranger, Constant, Voiney, Monrtmorencg, Gr y. Here the names rush upon you, and every step is a tradition or a history. Ldespair of writ- ing the number of persons who visited Pere la Chaise. At every mrave some one seemed to be at prayer. And the forbidding clouds summoned their anger and broke into frightiul torrents o1 Tain, Which rolled down the hill from the steps of the small chapel in gullies, Ihave notscen a se- verer storm for a lon time. But the crowd poured "in, splashing their way to the tombs of the beloved and lost, and paying their sweet, sud ofices in spite of the tempest. PATHER HYACINTER. And connected with this religious movement I am natarally led to speak of “ex-Father” Hya- cinthe, as he is called, whom you know so well at home, He has drifted into Paris again, and is now living in the little village of Neuilly-on-the-Seine, a couple of miles beyond the Arch of Triumph, ‘he newspapers have made the Father the point of innumerabie pareerapne) and it would seem that there is a marked and systematic attempt to perse- cute him out of France. There is scarcely a news- aper that does not contain a paragraph or av tem about the Father or hig bride calculated to annoy or wound him, Let me translate one that I take at random trom a number, and which I find In La Vie Parisienne, a gossip, scandal and picture paper, written jor the students and the uncertain world :— The letters of ex-Father Hyacinthe are becoming as mumerdus as the stars, M. Loyson annonnces to-da; that he will continue to serve the mass in his apa in slippers and morning gown we suppose. We Loyson saying in the evening to his maid ot all “Catherine, you will serve mass at ten and breakfast at eleven o'clock.” And the next day we can fancy Madame Loyson—who iy prolonging her stay in bei, disturbed by a violent ringing of bells—sayin “strange that Catherine will never answer that bell!” And so in her turn she summons Catherine, and +: sharply, “Catherine, you are very slow in answering the door bell.” “Ah! no, Madaine,” says Catherine; “it is Monsicur at his mass.” In the meantime the ultramontanist journals assail the Father bitterly, while other writers sup- pan him for his marriage. The Father shows reso- lution and persistency in his defence. He replied to the editor of the Univers, the Jesuit organ, that he was a bigot, but sincerely one, and he held him in no less regard tor permitting his bigotry to as saiihim. And Paris had its laugh at the angry writer, who could not induce Hyacinthe to lose nis temper. A Paris newspaper (L’Avenir National) having defended the course of the Father in mar- riage, he this morning prints a letter thanking him. “Il have read,” says tue Father, “with the attention which they merit, the two articles you have written recognizing the marriage of the priests. You have treated with periect kindness and appreciation a guestion which, in France, as well as the world generaliy, has never been caretully studied, You have made an argument, based upon solid truth, and calculated, Ihave no doubt, to contri- bute largely to uprooting the prejudices which exist in our country, You have shown how It is not possible to attribute to the legislation of France that whichehas no existence save as an in- cident in its jurisprudence, and that it is not pba- sible to resign, without violence to conscience, rights which are reserved wnder the law.” The Father concludes with the hope that the articles to which he reters will be eniarged and printed, as the reform is oue that is intimately associated with all others. HYACINTHE'S POSITION—WILL HE BE A A SAVANARKOLA? In the meantime, Father Hyacinthe continues to live in his suburban home and to perform his offices as a priest of the Catholic Church, Although under the penalties of the Church and torbidden to cele- brate mass in any Catholic edifice, he insists upon his priestly character aud means to found a church here. The principle of marriage among the clergy, for which he contends, and the personal accept- ance of which on his part has made all this clamor, is exciting unusual attention, and the bitterness of the war made upon him for entering into the mar- ried relation shows that the Catholic powers here do not underrate his power or the importance of mf cause. The prejudice against a married clerg, is deep and implacabe, and extends into all classes, Even the scotting mind of France of the boulevards, which saw no great harm in shooting a bishop, is’ scandalized by the marriage of the clergy. Those who hate the Catholic Churen and ail churches welcome the act of Hyacluthe ‘as an evidence of the general immorality of the Church, and appeal to it in evidence of the corruption an falsity of religion generally. Nor can there be any doubt that the boid step of Hyacinthe has injured if not destroyed his influence asa reformer, His act had @ personal meaning—a desire for personal comfort or satisfaction—which suggested selfish- ness and the absence of those qualities of self- denial and abnegation which belong to reformers. The extent of this injury was seen at the Congress ol Old Catholics, at Cologne. Before his marriage Do one would have been more heartily welcomed or would have had more power and skill as a leader than Father Hyacinthe. He has rare gifts. His eloquence was the wonder and the attraction at Notre Dame. He writes the French language with the felicity and strength shown by Dr. Newman in the English, His tame had gone over the world; and ac at Cologne he was silent and avoided. The Old Catholics did not want bis counse! or his leadership. He had brought into his life a new and disturbing principle—a prin- ciple that the champions of reform did not wel- come. The Vid Catholics opposed the infallibility and other new dogmas, al pon that issue pro- enna to War against the Pope, Father Hyavinthe egan his secession in the same way; but while the Old Catholics confined their campaigns against the Papacy vo their dogmas of djscipline and Church goverument, Hyacinthe added the question of celibacy. The history of reformation shows that celibacy was never a welcome question to the reformers, Long after Elizabeth was satisited to aid in the Keformation she indulged a speciai dis- hike to married clergymen, and many Protestant minds even now find a scandal in it. So that Father Hyacinthe, in championing this doctrine, has taken one that, in the beginning, implies his own violation of his vow of chastity and oiends the singular sense of repulsion wifh which ali classes in this Catholic country regard a married clergy. 1 had an odd evidence Oo! the dislike which has allen. upon him the other morning at the Cathedral of LUTHER OR Notre Dame. At the door oi the church is a mer- chantman in ecclesiastical toys, relics, beads, prints and photographs. Notre Daine was the gcene of the Father's glory. ‘Have you # photo- graph of Pere Hyacinthe *’ I asked. ‘Ah, Mon- sieur! we are forbidden to gell it. He is no Catho- lic and no priest.” “Bu said, “I would ike one very much.” ‘Weil,’ was the reply, “we do have them, but they are kept yer, sec And 80 diving into one of his boxes he brought out the Father m Carmelite robes, and I preserved him tor a trame. HYACINTHE TO LEAD A CRUSADE AGAINST ROME. But whether he wins or loses the Father has raised his standard here and here he will make | his fight—a new Luther warring upon a Church whose pride he was a few years ago. He has made his home in a modest Village near the Bois de | Boulogne. He means to institute his Church in Paris, and 1am told b: his friends that he has the support of many good peopie, who believe ia bim, married or unmarried, The antipathy with which he 18 regarded by the Catholic Powers generaily, and the bitterness with which he is treated by the ullramontanes and Church press, show, as Ihave said, that Rome fears him. Aud noone can say what may be the effect of the movement of the Father. He is a man of eloynence and courage. He threw away What he hiunself calied “the glorious pulpit of Notre Dame” for a convic- tion. The daring of the Church and the idol of | tus bylliant Pars, he is now the despised of the Church, and his name is never mentioned except in mockery, He may become a new Savanarola—a new Luther, perhaps—or tis mame may never be heard except a8 you hear it now. The measure and interest of his lie bave inspured this reference, which must have an inierest to thousands in America, Who watch bis future with interest and wonder as to his career, THE DUTIES ON SHIPS—HOW AMERICA RETALIATED UPON FRANCE. We have had an unusual excitement he: American circles in reference to the comm relations between America and France. Some ye since a law Was passed in Washyigton permit | reciprocal commerce between the two countries i$ a tax upon shipping Was concerned, Tir euch government ander the Empire assented to (i ships of the two countries had access to ther’s ports without any spectul taxation when Thiers came into power, and Fran H | But tound it necessary Co tax everything on the eay | and sea to raise “money for Bismarck, a law wa pasecd by the Assembly terminating. this reciptoc | tly and taxing all American vessels that came invo reent on their-carfoes. The ou may imagine, to annoy tie commerce we had, espe- est Madies. Our soyermment re- caled the aticution of the French to the manifest unfairness of the > that their commerce ‘was enjoy- Dg & vilege that they did not accord to ours, and that, while they fad the utmost ireedom and Dequitaey in our ports, we were severely taxed. The replied, calling attention in their curyent fashion, to the financial burdens of the Empire, and saying that, alter all, we did not lose 80 much, 28 eUY Commerce Was so small, The matter floated between the two cabinets for some months, anti) a.despateh arrived announcing that the American government had retaliated upon Franee by:taxing all Frencn ships who came to American + ‘the effect was seen at once. French commerce was at once affected by it, Swiss cargoes that came to Havre and Brest had orders saa im any but French ships. All the American trade has been flor Ww! to Antwerp, and France will lose infinitely more than she would have gained from her ten per ceut tax upon American ships. England and Belgiom will be aided by it, and there is no way by which it can be repealed or amended until the As- sembly meets... The moral effect of the incident is to show the faily of these uncertain, stifling duties; the impossibility of narrowing and clipping the somumaio of two great names £0, moo 7 eee mane emergencies, an ie wisdom an re o1 free trade, tr ‘Thiers has no belie! in free trade. He wars upon it as bitterly as he warred upon the railroad system when it was first introduced into and thinks free trade will injure the na- tion, a he thought railroads would injure it. France hasbeen receding from her tree trade, and this, ae other lessong,-Willdo her statesmen great DEPARTURE OF THE OERMANS, ‘The Germans are caging themselves out of the Champagne country. Vor a time there waa a doubt as to whether they meant really to go, and Paris has been in a distressed state of mind, and on all sides one heard -of the German perfidy. By the terms of the trevty the departments in the Cham- pagne Few met He tobe evacuated on the 15th of Oct r, provided:@.half miltiard of the indemnity (about one hundred millions of dollars) was paid. ‘The money was pald at once, but the Germans would not thove. There were all sorts of rumors as to their obstinacy in remaining. They had not counted the money; they were angry because Herr Von nim, the Minister, had not received more attention; the huts were not bmilt tg suit, the paint was not dry, and all manner of excuses were made. The government did ali it could to soothe the French mjnd by announcing every morning in the news despatches that the Prussian garrisons were about to go—would go next day—and so on. There have been many rumors as to political dificulties and so on, and threats to return and occupy Paris, even if Germany were not assured that France had no iu- tention to renew the strife. But litake it these come {rom the antipathy of the French towards the Germans, and the dread which the Prussian vic- tories have not ceased to mspire in France. The news now seems to be assured that the Germans have gone to the Vosges departments. M. Thiers has used every exertion to prevent the appearance of any incident that might detain the Germans. The newspapers have been constantly entreated to re- strain their rhetoric; and the other day the editor of & newspaper, Who meant to pat an article com- aring the occupation of Paris by the Germanswith he uvccupation of Berlin by the French, was im- plored to desist. And he did, He was told he might offend the Germans by recalling a memory of Prussian despair and defeat. But it is also pes- sibie that the desire not to bring prominently to life one of Napoleon’s most graicful triumphs had something to do with it; for next to displeasing the Germans this government dreads nothing more thap pleasing the Bonapartists, LITARY POLITICS, There was an “incident” the other day which has made an anusual commotion. A Belgian journal announced that a number o! staff officers of Gene- ral Cissey, the War Minister, had, in an idle and thoughtless moment, inspired by wine and dinner perhaps, expressed their enthusiasm for the name of Napoleon and their desire for an cmpire. The incident was denied strenuously; but the republi- cans will not accept the denial. General Cissey is denounced as a Bonapartist, and his statfare mere creatures of the Empire. Gambetta’s journal says this morning that the day which saw the arrest of Bazaine should have seen the arrest of Cissey. Bazaine, you must remember, is the victim of all the Bonarparte sins, and Cissey could have no severer judgment passed upon him than this pronouncement of the organ of Gambetta. As it 1s, the radicals wilk clamor for Cissey’s head, and in appeasement, and to some extent in anticipation of the clamor, he has sent the sta: officer who was supposed to have longed for Napoleon upon a “private mission’ to Algeria, In other words, he has exiled him in a quiet ‘way until the storm blows over. And, as if to add to this, we have an order from General Ducrot, of all the men in the world, threatening in mild terms another war with Germany. ‘fhe exact words, a8 they may be freely translated, are:—“As to those with whom we battled step by step from the Rhine to the Loire, they may in time regret that they did not absolutely break our hearts by tearing from our bleeding hands the dearest children of France.” This coming from a general made a pro- found sensation. it was said that Von Arnim, the Prussian Ambassador, had demanded an oilictal disavowal of it on the part of the President. But this is not confirmed; it does not seem to be likely, and would be an unnecessary humiliation to Thiers, who has kept lus own rhetoric well in hand, and who had as littie to do with this foolish rhetoric as Arnim himself, But I have seen no rebuke to Ducrot. Now, if M. Gam- betta or Louis Blanc had ventured upon this vein of denunciation Europe would have rung with angry wonder, and M. Thiers would have shown ainazing vizor. But Ducrot isa soldier, and the mission of the conservative Ke- pubiic is to strengthen a regular army as one of the only two remaining conservative institutions. ‘The ariny is one and the Church is another, It 1s only by the Church and the army that “society can be saved.” And #0 the Republic strains every nerve and oppresses the people with taxes to create an army upon the old Napoleonic method— an army that wiil be an instrument of power and not arepresentative of the nation. So, when an army oficer insults Germany nothing is said. Had it been a journalist or a radical Deputy, what would not have been suid? i THE WAR UPON THE ARMY—A NEW QUESTION. On the other hand, while Ducrot insults Ger- many, and does not say a word about a republic, General Chanzy issues an order which is more temperate. Chanzy is the leader of the Left Centre, which might be called “mo colored” re- pibiloans, neither very red nor black nor white, ut a mingling of many tinis; and he assisted in saving society by commanding one of the divisions which suppressed the Commune. Chanzy says nothing that it would be useful to note. France, he is convinced, needs great virtues, and the army must be an example of virtue. It must be above parties; must serve the government as its sword, obeying, like the sword, the will of its master. At the same time, while Onanzy adjures army to “stand above party” and be the embodiment of ali civil and military virtues, he himself prints an address as leader of the Lett Centre—the mouse-colored party before mentioned--specifying his programme, There is to be a Vice President, in case of Thiers’ death; a second Chamber, like the American Senate; a limit to the Presidency, and perhaps an arrange- ment by which the Assembly shall continue three yeurs—one-third of the members being elected an- ell fede as one-third of our Senate is elected biennially. In the meantime the nied assured by the recent elections, are making ready for a war upon the Assembly, They claim that it represents nething; that its work was done when the loan was assured; that it represents France in @ panic, or rather in a passion of terror from the Germans; that it would, ipo its inmost soul, prefer the Ceunt of Chambord as»King and the Count de Paris as Dauphin to any other form of government. If Thiers was quite certain that Gambetta would not control the new Assembly he would advise the present to dis- solve, But the elections show that a new class of mea would assemble in Versailles in response to a new electoral summon a class given to the Re- public and meaning to assure it, no matter what may be the consequences—with no kind feelings to Church or army, or any institutions ior “the salva- tion of society.’ The army is not loved by radical France, The diterence be n this army and that of Prussia is that here the army is something apart from the people—an institution by itself— without the right of suffrage under the new law; tatfght to regard itself as a class—an exclusive, re- served, privileged class—and to be a simple sword in the hands of the ruler, In the hands of M, Thiers the army would be a toy, not @ weapon, lout on it be in the bands of a man like Nupo- eon I. NO ARMY THAT 18 NOT REPRESENTATIVE AND Na- TIONAL. This question was discnssed at the last Assembly, The republicans, under the lead of Gambetta, were anxious to have a military system under which every Frenchman would be have been adopted had not thrown his own personal weight into the balance, and tureatened to resign ualess he had tis own Way. You will re- member the straggie, and the bitterness which came of it, and how sadly the radicals retired trom the contest, and the self-denial shown by Gambetta, Louis Blanc and their friends, Well, the struggle Was udjourned—not ended. In the reo festo of Louis Blane you will see among the nal points of his creed is compulsory milita a soidier, This wouid vice—every Frenchman a sol But Thie his iriends are Frenchmen of the French, What would oecome of an army composed of the people? Could it be trusted? Wonald there not be a danger of its divsolving into another Commune, or, perhaps, many Communes? Could society—that’ mysterious something in France, which always needs saving—vrust the army to save it’ Would there not ays be the danger of a ‘“raternization” or a emonstration” or whole regiments reversing their muskets in “the p ence of the people’? These are the problet floating through the minds of the conservative classes—Thiers and his fotiowing. ‘But,’ say the repubiicans, “if you cannot trust an army of tho peovle to sustain soctety how can we trust an army composed of an exclusive class to protect liberty ¢ ith a National army there would have been no coup @état, No shooting down of strolling men and women on the Boulevards; such an army would sustain the Republic and never be a menace to it.” So the discussion continues, and in this shape it will reach the Assembly. It does m odd to one Who looks upon these problems with Ameficuh eyes that the rulers of France should be atraid of Frenchmen, And yet so it is and it only sustains the views I have all along ad- vanced in this correspondence that there are no tions in France now bit moral questions, at until they @ here can be no yurance of any peace rel and society. el ‘The extreme rauicais have a) the lise and purpose | thinker. of eoqeennye men. What they want no one can tee hind them is France— 4 rushing France, “What is your form of govern- meat?” gaid Prince. Ni mn - to ne day—Proudhon, the do I want, ur?” was the res) form of gov: ander which I Jotinea for bein, Tyscnionary and ampeatronty . ‘This flashing sen’ ves you Might that now barns in the political circles of France. PARTY DIVISIONS IN THE ASSEMBLY AND THEIR ar. So much is said of parties in France that now, a8 we are about to-have the Assembly in session, it may interest you to know the exact division of the political forces, In the Assembly there are now six distinct groups. First, the Extreme or re- publican union; second, the Republican or moderate republicans; third, the Left Centre, or still more moderate republicans; fourth, the Rught, whodsalte e monarchy preferring Henry wi sire @ monarchy, prefe: the Pith, and sixth, the Extreme it, who be- lieve in the Extreme Legitimist notions—the white fag, the Pope and no dynasty not a thousand years old. The first section of very extreme radi- cals numbers seventy members, and here Louis Blanc may be found. The Left numbers 160, and has men like Grévy in it. ‘The third, or Centre Left, has 140 members, under the lead of Chanzy, and who own themselves republicans of the Thiers school, The Centre Right contains 100 members, headed by the Duc de Broglie, Due d’Audriffet Pasquin and the Orieanists. ‘The Moderate Right has 120 members, while sixty Deputies sit on the Extreme ht waiting for mry and his white flag, under the lead of the Comte de Beauregard. No Fs igd bas a majority, and M. Thiers exists by: dealing with the six ies like a juggler with six eggs on six plates in his hand. He never holds — than one meres atime and keeps the rest, aur, THE MARRIAGE OF ROCHEFORT. Poor Henri Rochefort, he who as the editor of Za Lanterne, and a member of Gai tionary Paris, and now awaite death oF tr and now aw: leath or transpor- tation or sOmething of the kind in prison, has re- apt for a moment in Ver . Some after hig imprisonment the lady with whom he had lived in that uncertain relation so common. in Panis, and who had bot im children, was taken with an illness threatening a fatal ending. Roche- fort, who is imprisoned at St. Martin de Ré, ap- plied for adm} in tO mal Mile. Renault, the woman in question. be emer ion was given, and Rochefort, accompanied by the gendarmes, arrived at Versailles yesterday. Rochetert was very pale and Bervous, and had suffered great pain on the way. He continued to the prison, where he arrived at nine o’clock, and occupied cell No. 11. The civil and rehgious posite was cel@prated, and the next morning Rochefort was returned to his prison. Mile Renault is about forty, and eannot recover from her unfortunate illness. Figaro this morn- ing has a satirical account of the event under the heading, ‘Marriage of the Marquis de Rochefort.” It is believed that the terrible editor of the Lan- terne will seon be released. M. Thiers wishes to release him, but does not wish to offend the Bona- Partists, by whose influence he was condemned. FAITS DIVERS, A French journal sums up the ages of the men now high in France and French politics:—Henri V. 16 51; Nay aa) 63; the Count de Paris, 34, and M. Thie ‘6, OF the Orleans princes Nemours is 57; Joinviuie, 53; D’aumale, 49. Prince Napoleon 1s 49; the Prince Imperial, 16. Of the statesmen I note that Rémusat is 74; Girardin, 66; Dufaure, 73: Cremieux, 75; Jules Favre, 62; Jules Simon, 57; Louis Blane, 58, and Gambetta, 38. The ex-King Bomba o! Naples is in town on his way to the Pyrenees for the Winter. I gather this little table, showing the increase in the consumption of horse meat in Paris. It may pave an interest. to Mr. Delmonico and his pa- rons :— 1867—For three months ending October 1.. 535 1868—For three months ending October 1 637 1860—For three months ending October 1. 626 1870—For three months ending October 1, 1,799 1871—For three months ending October 1 716 1872—For three months ending October 1 1,144 This shows a slight increase, although the year 1870 was the year of the siege. TERCENTENARY OF PRESBYTERIANISH. John Knox and Calvinism—Scotland’s Debt to the Sturdy Reforme:—Memorial Services in the Charches Tc-Day. Three hundred years ago to-day—November 24, 1672—John Knox, the famous Scotch Presbyterian reformer, left the scenes of his spiritual warfare for the more peaceful scenes of the world above, and to-day his spiritual children in Europe and America will celebrate the event with appropriate religiousceremonies. Knox was sixty-seven years of age when ne died. The place of his birth is a matter of dispute, but it is supposed to have been Giffordgate, Haddingtonshire. city of Edinburgh, He was a gradnate of the Glasgow University, and prior to 1530 he entered the ministry, ‘The Protestant Reformation was taking deep root and spreading all over Eng- land at the time, and in 1542 John Knox became an avowed and marked reformer. He was for a while a teacher of philosophy in St. Andrews, but, becom- ing disgusted with certain practices therein, he left his position and retired to the sonth of Scot- land, where. he was degraded from his offive, de- clared a heretic and his life threatened. He then became a private tutor in a family and remained in retirement until 1547, when he, with other Protes- tants, took refuge in the castle of St. Andrews, and there he began to preach against the Papacy. The garrison of the castle surrendered, and, be- | cause of a violation of the terms of capitulation, Knox and his comrades were transicrred to France, where he remained ‘A PRISONER IN THE GALLEYS for nineteen months. In 1549 he was released, and returning to England he was appointed to preach at Berwick and Newcastie and became one of the chaplains to Edward VI. He dectined a bishopric which was tendered to him. When Queen Mary ascended the throne Knox fled to Geneva, where, in 1556, he became pastor of a small English con- gregation. Here he associated with Calvin, Beza and other reformers, and his reform principles be- came confirmed. During his residence in Geneva he was condemned by the British authorities to be burned as a heretic, and the sentence was exe- cuted on his Cae He first appeared as an author in his “Appelation’” against this condemnation and also in atract published soon after against “The Monstrous Regiment of Women’’—Mary Tudor of England, and Mary of Guise, who was at that time the Regent in Scotland, and whose nearest successors to both thrones were women. Knox did not believe in petticoat government, and his fol- lowers at, this day are very much of his belief in this regard, for they set their faces as flints against women preaching in their pulpits. In 1559 Knox accepted an invitation to return to his native heather, and, landing at Leith, he journeyed toward Perth, where he preached against “the idolatry of the mass and the veneration o1 images.” A row ensued in the churen, during which the images were demolished, the pictures torn from the walls and trampled under foot, and the houses of the Dominican and Franciscan friars and the Carthusian monastery were sucked and laid in ruins by the infurlated mob. The een Regent advanced her army upon the city; but the Protestants were too well prepared to receive her and her army capitulated mstead of the city. Similar riots took place in Stirling, Lindores, Cupar, St. Andrews and other places, and after Knox had preached in St. An- drews the magistrates united with the people in desolating the churches and monasteries and in esiablishing the reiormed worship. In 1560, by the aid of Elizabeth of Engl: THE REFORMED RELIGION WAS ESTABLISHED in Scotland. Knox, through his vehement and ultra radicalism, frequently got himseif into trou- ble, but he was invincible, and, with energy un- daunted, he continued to preach and to discuss publicly with opponents from the Catholic party the great questions involved in the Reformation, In 1571 he fled from Edinburgh to St. Andrews, but returned the next year to denounce most bitterly the perpe- trators of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. The doctrines of Knox embraced a Calvinistic creed with a Presbyterian polity. He was a man of stern morality, intensely earnest in every practical di- rection, but he was not a very deep or speculative In his radicalism he swept away from Scotiand some of the grandest architectural monu- ments of former ages, and left the country almost as bare as the hills of “Bonnie Scotland.” He wrote comparatively few works, but he left an ex- ample ot religious steadfastness which Presbyte- rians throughout the world admire and honor, and which to-aay they will reverence in his memory by songs and sermons, THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR. pete SS ae Their Noble Efforts in Behalf of the Aged Poor—The New Home in Process of Construction—A Charity that Com. mends Itself to the Generous, Among all the diversified charities of the city not one is worthy of more generous and fostering support than the Home for the Aged, established at 445, 447 and 449 West Thirty-second street by the Little Sisters of the Poor. This institution, which is a mode! of cleanliness and order, harbors about one hundred and twenty aged persons of both sexes, and administers to both their temporal and spiritual welfare. Many of them = are very aged, iriendiess and destitute; but here, under the protecting gis of the Sisters, they find a cheerful home and affectionate advice that cheer them in_ their jour- ney toward the future life in store for them. ‘Too old to make personal exertions in their own behalf, they have, in the person of the devoted and self-sacrificing nuns, gentle messengers, who go about in the broad streets and appeal to the phtieurnropes in their behalf, The proprictors of the large halls and dealers at the markets have enerously responded to the appeals of the Sisters fh supplying clothing, food, &c.; but still the Sis- ters find the demands iipon them greater than the donations of the past have been adequate to meet. The present Home is found to be tnacequate to accommodate the demand upon the nuns, and they are) now engaged in the erection of He died in the | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1872._QUADRUPLE. SHEET. more commodions one in Seyentiom mear Third avenue, upon a pio fe Iready walls are leet front. A! the it is ready to be enclosed. The Sisters are now 8] to the charitable for contributions towards the opie. and. to 3 #3| MISSING MEN. 80 he Titae should at once secure such generous relieve them of debt enable * Tesponses as wil ‘them to extend their worksof charity tenfold. Con- tributions of p clothing or money will be received with grateful hearts and will be called for @t the residences of the contributors if notice be sent 0 the Home. REAL ESTATE AFFAIRS, A Word in Regard te the Exchange Sales—Property About Mount Morris Square Very Desirable—West Side of the Central Park an Offset to Fitth Avenue—The Influence of the Zoo- logical Garden and Museum of Arts on Increased Values—Taxes Collected During the Week—An Extensive Land Sale Next Tucsday—Trausfers of Real Estate. Saturday usually is a blank among real estate buyers and sellers, On the Exchange the few people who put in an appearance, Micawber like, doso more to see what might turn up‘in the shape of irregular sales than to make stated purchases, The only transaction that occurred at the designated hour was a foreclosure sale, by order of ttié Supreme Court, on a piece of property—the one-half interest therein over and above an existing mortgage of $14,000 and interest due since last July. The property is located near Third avenue, below Fiftieth street, was started at $3,000, run up to $23,500, and finally knocked downto the plaintift in the suit for foreclosure, Another piece of prop- erty, offered under similar circumstances, was withdrawn when the spirit of the assembly was ascertained to be in a mood to bull very largely. It can hardly be said that all the sales at the Real Estate Exchange are a reilex of the market, as the bargainings on the Stock, Gold and Produce Exchanges are the regtlators of the various com- modities disposed of there. Many a piece of real estate is sold at the first named place to make a value for other property in the wicbilty and very frequently lots are offered for sale and bought in by the seller’s Irienas, This course, however, is not pursued by many of the brokers doing business at the Exchange, and the few dealers who lend themselves to stich small bnsiness are well known and avoided by genuine investers and operators in property. Among the leading brokers there have occurred few transfers during the past week besides those noted in the HERALD on the 22d instant. t, day several sales were effected in the vicinity of Mount Morris square at comparatively low figures. Three lots on the southwest corner of Third ave- nue and 10sth street, 75 by 1@ feet, were so!d for $35,000, and tour lots on 120th street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, size 8 by 100 fect, a small gore off, brought a high figure. ‘The fact that active work in sinking the track of the Fourth avenue road has been commenced, and the extension of the Madison Avenue Railroad is progressing rapidly, property in the vicinity of Mount Morris square has become in active de- mand and is worth really more than is asked for lots in other and Jess desirable locations. From the fabulous prices realized for lots on the line of the Central Park, especially fronting thereon, have by no means reached the zenith of their enormity. ‘There seems still room left for advance. It is confidently asserted by those who are sup- posed to know that lots on Fifth avenue and con- tiguoug thereto will soon command from $100,000 to $150,000 apiece. Time will tell whether such folly can possibly prevail, even if money is a mere drug in the market, which fact, however, the com- mercial men are loth to acknowledge, A8 an offset to east side property, investments on the west side of Eighth avenue, tronting the Cen- tral Park, are the order of the day. The crection of the Zoological Garden and Museum of Art, occu- pying ten acres of ground in the Park, running Irom Seventy-seventh to Kighty-first street (for the Jatter the foundation is now being dug), will have a tendency to attract purchasers, and that side of Kighth avenue must necessarily become the loca- tion for private residences. New avenue, com, mencing at 100th ie ee and extending all the way to Spuyten Duyvil and Eighth ani Ninth avenues, is likewise rapidly coming into public favor, and in a few years Will form one of our finest thorough- lares, Four lots, 200x50 feet, on this avenue, were sold on Friday for the round sum of 00. hour lots on the northwest corner uf Yighth ave- nue and 102d street, brought $90,000; while a simi- lar Pe of ground, situated on the Grand Houle- vard, southwest corner of Seventy-sccond street, commands $110,000, and, owing to its locution, is still considered very cheap. The payment of taxes, now in course of collection by the Receiver, has had considerab e intuence on the realestate transactions, by absorbing funds which otherwise would tind an outlet by the mvest- | ment in property. The amount of taxes collected during the past sir 799 TD. ‘The action of the in regard to the | s was ¢ Herwrit vote their Infiuence and power in compelling the city authorities to provide an adequate supply of | water, and steam engines with power suMcient to send a stream to the highest roof in the city, than tw interfere wita the rights of the property owners: in auy way. Forty-two valuable parcels of land, belonging to the estate of tue late David Banks, will be sold next Tuesda the Exchange by order of the Su- preme Cour!. The property cons of two four- Story houses and jots, J44 and 346 Seventh avenue ; the three-story brown stone house and lot 346 West Twenty-seventh street; improved property known 185 ‘and 127 Bleecker street; house and lot 118 Prince street, ‘k house and lot 463 Washington ptton of Mansard roots 1s causing consider- uble agitation among the real estate interest, Property holders contend thai the: ‘vfs, it prop- erly constructed of brick or ivon, are as Sate asa | one-story nouse, and as it is nov only convenient | but extremely desirous to occupy these upper | stories, as Yeached by steam "ALOT, 08+ pecially in hot weather, the insurance ‘com- | ies should interpose no hindrance to the | jon of such ornaments to buildings in the | shape of fire-proot Mansard roots, and rather de- | | three-story bri street; the building and lot 31 Leonard street and improved property tieth, and situated on Thirty-ninth, For- 157th, 148th and 160th streets, Tenth avenue ingsbridge Road. The terms of the sale eventy per cent may remain on mortgage ce years at seven per cent. This sale is peremptory and without reserve; title perfect. ‘The following transfers were made last weck of, NEW YORK RE. Av. A, w. 8, 50 fi, n. 76th st., 25x190. 1. &. corner Bid st., 162K: SO Ths. 74th st, T22d Wt, ©. 7th av., 25x1 $75 ft. w. 9th ay., 26. 72.2 tt. e. 10th av., 26.1%! and lot: 58d st. m, 8, 205 it. @. Both st, 1 100, AY., 19X100.5, Bot N.S. '15x100.5, hou: 65th st., 8 s., 100 ft. w. Sth ay., 20x100. 123.6 tt. e, Madison av., ! Le, Y ay. 500.2... 128th st., N. 8., 150'tt. @, 8th av., 100x911 128th st. n. #., 150 tt. e, 8th av., 2x99. 11, Q. ¢ Henry &t., 3 Seaimme! st. hovise and et ; 38,000 HIS TRAVELS. lot. DICK CONNOLLY ON Rusticating in Spain and Portagal— His Departare for the Holy Land on November 1—Watson’s Tell-Tale Book Removed from the Park Bank and Taken to Europe by a Lady Kelative of Connolly. 6 From a friend of the ex-Comptrolier, who has been in constant communication with him and who has just returned from Eutope, a reporter of the HERALD learns something of the alleged move- ments of Richard B. Connolly. He sailed from this port for Liverpool incog., and his disguise was so perfect that he was not recognized by several New Yorkers who were fellow passengers. Onarriving in England he at once proceeded to Spain, where his family now reside, Most of his time has been spent in rainbles through’ Spain, Portngal and Italy. On the 1st of the present month he left Brindisi, Ttaly, with a party of English tourists, for a year’s trip. ‘They first go to Joppa, and will make on extended tour of the Holy wand, the points of interest in Egypt, run down the Red Sea to India, take in all the important Chinese and Japanese ports and thence proceed to Honolulu. Their trip is ex- pected to occupy a year, and “Slippery Dick’s” movements thereafter will depend upon circum: stances. He is travelling under an assume name, and so far has not encountered any Atnerican tourists who recognize him. It is his intention to give this coun- try the cut direct, and spend the rest of his ays in Europe, far away from the scenes of his financial exploits. A few weeks ago, as it is stated, he sent @ confidential agent—a fe- male relative—to this city to secure County Audi vor Watson’s book that was deposited in the Safe Deposit vaults in the Park Bank building and in which the amonnts and dates of the sums stolen and distributed between the members of the bi were entered in detail. The book was remove: froin the vaults and the lady custodian carried it to Europe on the toth of October. Connolly's ob- ject in removing the book was to prevent the pros- ecuting officers LS Possession of it, as its contents , it was feared, would seriously Je pardize his eivil case now pending before the Courts, if put | @ | jp evidence. | and had setth Theories in Vogue on the Peay and Other P Extraordinary Cases, Searching the Depths—The Police Scouting the Murder and Robbery Side of the Question and Working to Establish the Opposite View—Temperance in Trouble. The disappearance of Mr. George M. Peay atill con- tinues the subject of general conversation through- out the city. The belief that he was led away, murdered and robbed is gaining ground, although the det» ctives positively assert nothing of thé kind has happened, Mr. Justice Peay seems to have no doubt whatever his brother.was killed, and he is confirmed in this opinion by several circumstances surrounding the case. When the particulars of the sad occurrence were first made public it-was stated that the last seem of Mr. Peay was when he left the Brandreth House at half-past two o'clock on the Thursday morniug. Mr. Martin con- ducted him +t) the door, and watched him” through the windows of the door’ until he had gained the corner of Canal street. and- Broadway, on the hotel side. It has since been ascertained that a night watchman, employed in the neighborhood, saw—or thinks he saw—a gen- teman answering the description of Mr. Peay stop in the middle of the block aboye Canal street, on Broadway, to talk to two other gentlemen, and the watchman afterwards noticed the gentleman he thinks was Mr. Peay go away with these two men. They firssMirned towards Mercer street, and after getting into it the three walked along, going up town, until they disappeared out of sight of the watchman. This coincides exactly with the police theory; butif Mr. Peay 1s still in town, and @ number of the detectives insist he is, ; WHY 18 HE NOT FOUND? Ten days have now elapsed since he so suddenly and mysteriously dropped out of view, and if he were in New York it seems reasonable to expect he Would have heard something of the excitement caused in the public mind by his extraordinary ab- sence. Mr. Justice Peay has learned that his bro ther met some men casually at the bar of the Brandreth House who afterwards introduced him to two other parties, and the supposition has arisen that thesc men have had something to do with his going away. There seems to be.no doubt that Mr. Peay was shadowed for several daya before he drew the money from the bank in see The men er women who were employed todo: work of following up would have no difficulty in ascertaining the fact of his hav- ing drawn the money, and even the amount paid to him at the bank. That Tobbery was the object of ail this attention to the gentleman there is no question, but it was not ne- cessary to murder him to gain possession of his money, and jewelry. He could easily have been garotted, deprived of his valuables and left on the sidewalk. The thieves might even have killed him, committed the robbery and left the on the street, and then escaped, with a pretty good chance of never being ‘hiscovered. ‘the ameftion at looks like a terrible one in o great cit present state of the world’s progress; yet the re- cent past will iully prove the“ possibiltty of the oc might have strolied down to, currence. Mr. Peay Pai aap ro if, while walking degen. 3 one of e doc! is became very much occupied, he might have de A FALLEN INTO THE RIVER, © > ‘~~ If that was the case the body would assurediy’ turned up before this, and if is not likely. he ool get so near the river without having been: some one Who would since hgve comm i intelligence to the police. Mr. Justice learned that the mi gentleman made the ac quaintance of the captain of a steamer. plying. De- tween New York and some Southern porw, ‘Mr. George N. Peay went on board this ‘Reamer visited the captain several times. The gentle in command of the vessel it is understood was. either a native of Kentucky or very wellacquainted there, and it is quite probable Mr. Peay and hé were acquainted numbers Bn that.both knew. This would afford plenty of mat rial for conversation and would show @ good rea- son for the frequent visits to the vessel. He like- ‘wise made the acquaintance of the captain of the steamship City of Brassels and went on board that. ship. The detectives are of opinion that Mr. Peay might have gone on a trip im one of these ships, or perhaps, if he had a taste that way, he ht have gone on’some other “raft that Lis friends have no yet‘heard about. While all is still uncertainty, ‘ourse anything is probable and the more cheerfal view of the case that the police hi sah is the pleas- antest toadopt. Superintendent Kelso was very busy in the matter. Yesterday detectives were sent out Ms TO SCOUR THE CITY ‘in all directions. Some were assigned to look through hotels, others were commissioned to ex- uimine houses of not quite so good @ character, and three were sent to look through the most disreput- able dens in the city. Captain Irving is p at work on the case, and while the detectives ant the authorities are convinced Mr. Peay is still in New York, there is some amount of hope they will succeed in finding him. Com joner Barr has taken a strong interest in the case and is urging onthe officers to their utmost by every means in his power. The disappearance of Mr. Peay has as- sumed such @ character and caused so mach con- sternation in the minds of the Roos that the po- lice are thoroughly aroused to the necessity of un- usual exertion to gustain the reputation and honor of the department. The captains of the several precincts are also doing all they can in their dis- tricts to find out the whereabouts of Mr. a, Captain Byrne, with his two detectives, has a complete examination of the Fifteenth precine and has come to the conclusion Mr. Peay is ni secreted in that locality. Captain Ulman has done the same thing in the Fourth. Captain Tynan is a second time going through the Tenth, and the work is being carried threugh all the wards. Each of the detectives as he started out yesterday from Police Headquarters was handed a portrait of Mr. Peay, with a description of him and the jeweiry he wore attached, with special instructions in each case. . Detective Wooldridge arrived at the Central Office during the afternoon, with a shadow of coun- tenance that betokened SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION. He kept it to himself very closely though, and only remamed @ few minutes at Headquarters when he started off again. Detective Wooldridge is of opinion that Mr. Peay is in New York alive, and that he can find him, The detective says it is on! a question of time and the gentleman is certain turn up. Some years ago this officer was engaged in hunting up @ celebrated temperance lecturer. ‘The disappearance of that man caused something the consternation that the absence Mr. Peay has produced; but it was discovered by the lice that the tem- perance lecturer har in a most disreputable den, drunk whole of the time, and as soon as his money was gone the temperance teacher was flung on the sidewalk. Newspapers never get into these plaves, and the noise made about the great advocate of abstinence had found no echo in his haunt. Another case cited is that of a lady who lived on Staten Island. Her friends were almost distracted for weeks and months by her mysterious abssnce. It afterwards turned out she had’ run away with a gentleman, 1 in Italy. From experiences like argue, and it is to be sincerely They scout the t Mr. Peay is alive these the poil hoped their views ure correc idea of murder, and are confi: and Will soon ve with frienu AN EXTRAORDINARY FEATURE of police matters is that one cise of a particular crime or accident is usually followed by a pamber of others of the same description, A murder will bring a multitude of murders; a burglary will be followed by burglaries, and so on with the whole catalogue of crime. Mysterious disappearances are now the feature before the public, and the number of persons calling at, Police Headquarters for the past few days to look after missing relatives is ap. palling. Where they come irom, how they get lost and where they go to, are questions that many would like to solve. In Brooklyn THE PUBLIC PCISE has been agitated in the same manner as in New York. Mr. Van Doran Gieemeeres ut that city and has not turned up, The police have been worki unceasingly im the case, but have arrived ai nothing. A schoolboy, named Elmer Brown, has also gone from his home without leaving any trace of his whereabouts with his ¢istracted parents, Among the mass of letters, han«{bills and cards at Police Headquarters from parents, friends and relatives about missing persous is a letter asking Superintendent Kelso to have search made for three boys who left their home a fortnight ago and have not since been heard of. ‘These lads are brothers, and although their relatives have scoured the country for miles round where they have lived no news can be gathered of them. A lady asks the Su tendent to her only daughter, thirteen years of age and mngulsrly beautifal. Through pages, of foolscap a jather benoans the loss of a son, the cleverest boy in the neighborhood and @ marvel of goodness. Almost bat f day scores of people can be seen at the building in Mulberry street who are looking for missing rela- tives. His iriends are searching for Felix Curtis, of 417 Ninth avenne, near Thirty-fourth street. When he left home he was dressed in a dark @ pants and seal skincap. He has dark hair an eyes, is five feet seven inches high and of preposses- sing appearance. Frederick F, Martines, fifteen years of age, has left his home and his relatives can find no trace of him, He is five feet three inches high, of fair complexion, dark brown hair, gray eyes, of strong constitution; has irregular teeth, He speaks English, French, Spanish and Itali Was born in Florence, Italy, He wore at the time of his disappearance a silver watch with gold Mr. H, Martinez, of 84 chain and gold wrist studs, Fifth avenue, will be glad of apy information re epecting him. ! ero eee