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MARSHAL BAZAINE’S TRIAL, ‘THE UPS AND DOWNS OF POLITICS. Reorganization of the French Army. ROUTINE STOPPING THE WAY. Ancient Gauls and Mod- ern Frenchmen. Panis, Oct. 9, 1873. Pending the restoration of Henri V. or the def- “nite proclamation of the Republic, Frenchmen have found a congenial pasture for their tongues ‘tn the trial of Marshal Bazaine, These arraign- ments of important personages on a capital charge have always strong, tart favor which the mul- *titude loves, and though the emotional sentiment is lessened in this case by the almost absolute cer- ‘tainty that the prisoner will not be convicted, yet many Parisians take a social pleasure in reflecting athat Marshal Ney—a greater man than Bazaine— ‘was shot for treason after the return of the Bour- ‘Dons in 1815, and that should the last of the Bour- ‘bons be re-enthroned he may be inclined to offer ‘up this new Marshal as a sin-offering for the trans- gressions of the whole army. If this gloomy act of ‘vigor were ever contemplated what would the Prime Minister de Broglie say? His father, the late Duke de Broglie, being a young man at the time, was the only member of the House of Peers ‘who had the courage to stand up and pleaa for ‘Ney; and when the old comrade of Napoleon, jthe victor of Elchingen and La Moskowa, was led out on that cold December morning to be executed on that plot of ground opposite to which Butler’s famous dining saloon now stands, the young Duce put on mourning and stigmatized the act, which party spirit and not justice had prompted, as a de- liberate murder. There is some similarity between ‘the positions ot Ney and Bazaine, for both rose from the ranks and enjoyed the character of being simple minded and bluff soidiers till politics brought them to grief; but Ney’s imputed crime was not ‘quite the same as Bazaine’s, and to find an exact parallel to the present trial we must go back to the case of General Dupont de l’Etang. General Dupont, commanding the French troops in Spain, ‘let himself be surprised at Baylen by the Spanish forces under Castafios, and, on the 22d of July, 1808, \signed a humiliatory capitulation, py which all his arms, artillery, flags and stores were surrendered ‘to the enemy. The affair was most disastrous, for it revived the drooping hopes of the Spaniards, and ‘the French, grown as dispirited as their descend- ants after the fall of Metz, were beaten from that ‘day forth at all points of the Peninsula. So, when General Dupont re-entered France he was tried by court martial, degraded as a coward and traitor and condemned to death, though Napoleon com- muted the sentence into a life imprisonment in ‘the Fortress of Youx. One of the marshals avout ‘court remonstrated at the commutation and sub- mitted that there ought to be no alternative in guch a matter between shooting and acquittal; ‘but the Emperor answered :—‘‘What ! put this man out of the world by the same death which thous- ‘ands of my brave soldiers have courted under his order! No; I want him to live and feel that he is apoltroon. If I could I would condemn him:to live a thousand years.” It should be added that ‘after the fall of Napoleon Dupont was released and appointed War Minister, which proves once again that politicos are truly a wheel, on the turns of which there is no reckoning. But ‘WHAT ABOUT THE REORGANIZATION OF THE FRENCH aBMY? For Bazaine’s trial naturally suggests the en- quiry as to what has been done since the war to render wholesale defeats less possible for the future. Well, visitors to France have been able to perceive tnat the uniforms of the soldiers have been considerably altered during the last two years. The dashing costumes of hussar and lancer, Chasseur and dragoon, cente-garde and carabineer, have all been reduced to two sorts of garbs—dark Dlue tunic and helmet for heavy cavalry, light blue tunic and red jam-pot shako jor the light, The in- fantry shakos have also been improved by being rendered three ounces heavier than the old ones, nd the officers on the staff have been deprived of @ good deal of the gold lace they used to wear on their sleeves, But this is about all; for though the country has nominally been divided into eighteen amilitary districts, with separate control and com- ‘Missariat, and though generals have been busy all this summer doing topo, as they call it, that is surveying the topography of each district with a view toa new ordnance map, yet the two @adical defects of the French military system— excessive centralization in the administrative services and insuuicient edacation of the oficers— xemain virtually uncured; so that all the changes vandertaken have been mere innovations, not reforms. The simple fact is that Frenchmen have Mot yet learned to recognize the true causes of ‘their failure. It suita the national vanity much "better to ascribe lost battles to the mistakes or treason of the few than to the incapacity and in- -discipline of the many; and the popular belief ts -that if France can only cast a few guns as good as the Krupps and bring 1,000,000 of men into the field her native valor—that old furia francese 80 indomitable of yore—will carry her to Berlin in few years, all German science and stolidity not- withstanding. No doubt most officers are ready to admit that it is a pity they should be so ‘much less learned than the Germans, and they ‘hope that the coming generation of Frenchmen ‘Will show improvement in this respect; but each fMficer as he deplores his ignorance sips his absinthe serenely, and if you ask him why he does mot himself set a good example by learning Ger- man or English, brushing up his geography and adding to his store of mathematics, he shrugs bis shoulders and says, 1: ing, ‘(4 quoi bon? On nous donne aucun encouragement.” The On re- ferred to is of course government, to whom or which all good Frenchmen look for their inspira- tions, and it is quite true that government offers French soldiers no encouragement whatever to be studious. In those admirable reports which Colonel Stoffel forwarded from Berlin to the French War Office under the Second Empire—reports ‘which the clerks seom to have consigned to the Pigeon holes unread—it was clearly shown that the excellence of the Prussian army rested on this, that the education of officers was continuous— mever coasing, in fact—till the oficer Fetired; whereas, in Franc gag? a Omh NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, cer had passed his drat exantination for ad. mittande he could rely on obtaining all his promotigtis, whether he ever opened @ book again or not. The contrast was chiecly discernible in the staff setVices of the two countries, for the Prussian staf was weeded by successive exaniinations of all offiters Who relaxed in their industry, whilst it was thé common rule in the French staff that an oMcer céased to study for good and all as soon as he was released from the college and presented with his atglets, after the war, when schemes for amendment were studied on all sides, it was in- deed announced that French oMcers would only be allowed toearn their promotions thenceforth by their work and merit; but BUREAUCRATIC ROUTINE STOPPED TB WAY. The scholarizing of the army would have checked Promotion from the ranks and interfered with the spirit of “equality,” as the French understand that term; it must also have led to the shelving of many ignorant but worthy generals who had striven under the old aystem, and of course that it needed no changing. Looking to these barren results of 80 much defeat and suffering, one might be tempted to despair of France’s ever regaining her rank as @ nation were it not for the recollection that Frenchmen have always been what they are now, and have yet generally succeeded in scrambling to their legs somehow. The chronictes of the country record an ever recurring sertes of defeats: checkered by occasional brilliant and noisy, though useless victories. After Oressy, Poictiers, Agincourt, Pavia; after Marlborough’s victories at Blenheim, Ramillies, Malplaquet and Oudenarde, and after Waterloo, the nation seemed at death’s door; but native thoughtlessness, begetving never- daunted pluck, the people rose gayly to arms again as soon as they could cateh any other nation ata vantage, and it is probable that they will proceed in this manner to the end of the chapter. Livy took their moral measure 1,800 years ago. Then he said of their ancestors, the Gauls:—‘Prima eorum prelia plus quam virorum, postrema minus quam fSeminarum esse” (In their first efforts—that is, in victory—they are more than men, and in their last more than women). Cesar, too, appears to have drawn of their po- litical character a picture that will always be true to life—"rhe Gauls are fond of change and easily excited to war. Hasty and precipitate in their resolutions, they are yet attaehed to liberty and hate slavery.” Let us hope that they will some day or other ob- tain the liberty they have always loved but never possessed, and get rid of the slavery they have |. ever hated but invariably suffered. For the present it is not unimportant to mention that M. Alexandre: Dumas, who has been pleasantly surnamed “(HEB GREAT IMMORALIST,”” has foregone the intention he had recently an- nounced of abandoning authorship, and means to contribute anew to the regeneration of his country by.@ psychologico-social comedy to be brought out at the Gymnase, in January. But the influence of M. Dumas on the morals of modern Frenchmen is @ subject of wide range which deserves being treated of in a separate letter. , REGNIER'S INTRIGUE. —_-—. The Story of the Secret Emmissary of Eugente—The Light Side of a Strong Character. {from the London Daily Telegraph, Oct. 11.) PARIS, Oct. 9, 1873. Of all the episodes of this extraordinary drama of Metz, the part played by Regnier is by far the most sensational. This name awakened more in- terest on Monday than that of any of the famous military and diplomatic personages who were called, and as he walked up the central gangway on his way out, his bushy white hairand square sturdy face, nis light tweed shooting suit and round felt hat were scanned more closely than all the prilhant uniforms that had preceded him. Could this stolid-looking yeoman be the mysterious individual who, unknown and unfrienaed, had gained the ear of Prince Bismarck, the Empress Eugénie and Marshal Bazaine—who almost succeeded in negotiating a treaty of peace between France and Germany, without having any authority from the principals, and in securing a return of the Napoleonic dynasty, to which he was utterly unattached? His evidence willindeed form one of the most im- portant links in the chain ofimputations against the Marshal. The strange, inexplicable character of the chief performer in this diplomatic comedy— @ comedy which had a tragic dénowment—iends piquant interest to the story. The prosecution depends to a great extent on M. Regnier’s evi- dence for the making out of its case, but does not spare its chief witness. The supercilious, not to oe insolent, way in which he is referred to in the indictment against Bazaine ts curiously character- istic of French law procedure. Can you imagine such ® phrase as this occurring in an Engiish legal document :—“Who was this personage who rose to the surface thus inopportunely in the midst of these serious events, and whose fatal interven- tion was destined to draw Marshal Bazaine into the most guilty resolutions?” The report then bey to inform us:—“Regnier was born in paris in 1822, and that he received a very imper- fect education is proved by his strange style and his vicious orthography.” He began the study of law and of medicine without pushing his studies very far. ‘Later,’ says the report, “he busied himself with magnetism’—though what relation this fact had to the trial a not appear. When wo are assured that he has “exploited a quarry of paving stones,” is it implied that he did so with an ‘ultimate view to barricades? It cannot be alto- gether agreeable for a witness to have it put on official record that ‘‘Regnier is a cunning and au- dacious man; his manners are Mad ioe ;, extreme! vain, he fancies himself & profouns politician, He has published numerous pamphlets.” This last is @ m:ster stroke of the prosecution. What confi- dence can we possibly have in @ man who has been Fak of such an indiscretion ? M. Reguier may well feel indignant at the style in which the above portrait has been painted; but he cannot complain of the sanctity of private life being invaded, for he has himself set the example. While the text of the indictment against Bazaine is in your hands it may be well to draw your atten- tion to the remarkably interesting pamphiet, enti- tled “Quel est votre nom, Noum? Une Etrange Histoire Dévoilée,” published in Brussels. In this production M, yore mixes up family te Matters in the oddest ible way. He does not hesitate to take the public into his inti- mate confidence. He telis us that he lives on @ charming estate of his own, where he has every comfort. In his own expressive wo! taste fishing, affection—he found them al in his me.” Besides his property in France he has an income of £800 a year in Eng- land, though what this fortunate circumstance has to do with his exploits during the war he does not explain. It was nier who advised the Em- press to reassert her irene, and, by way of c of maintaining her ground on French soil, to take w her quarters on @ French ship wat ‘rhe iden ‘Was, to say the least, ingenious, but the writer in- sista with quaint vehemence on the excuse the Fm- is to make for having lett é., that wished—‘What mother can vlame her?’ ex- claims the anthor—to embrace her child. How the Empress and all those about her threw cold water on M. aes: offer to go to Prince Bismarck on & Sritpintndasd te ecrleeetes nares in im to writ a phiogograpnie viow these word: Hon cher Dar envote les vues @ He Sl qu’ elles vous plairont;” how, armed with not more omcial, the amateur negotiator managed to reach the German Premier—all this must still be fresh in the Lag of every Englishman. But Regnter's account his interviews with Bismarck is so in- teresting and 80 graphic that it may be worth while to remind you of some points in these con- versations. The vanity of the writer appears in the mors ey Pipkin Bd eee eres on his kind reception at the han ismarck's secre- tary, Count Hatafeld :— pi I take repose in an arm chair for half ‘who serv an hi am ‘awakened by the ser ome adiuner t nA corner of his writing table, © oot and coffee complete, his ospitality fe tome mouthfuls and set biog wid preparing in ince my con- Yersation for the even! nee udience—an audience which Tas Sista ia ig sarod oe BERET tired, but that he will iit o'slook.” I is interesting, mot er, to note that accora- ing to the. writer ‘Bismarck heartily endorses Reg. nier’s assertion that the tetra of national defence. inatead of attempting to defend anythi has done more narm for twenty leagues roun: Paria than the barberiay 09.” o) ook occasion to denounce the Vandalisii @f the French government in blowing up the bridgee—a measure which had not arrested the progress of the Germans for an hour. In briel, Regnier pro- rest to repair to Metz and Strasbourg, and to ar- that if those places yielded they should jeld in the name of the Emperor. The legislative Bodies were then to be called together, and the ultimate government snould be decided a plébiscite, Bismarck’s rely is couched in guage so characteristic of the German stavesmi atyle as to inspire implicit confidence in the coi Tectness of Regnier’s report :— gz “sir,” Pisnarek is 1 have replied, ‘destin: has decid ro delay ¢ Tecogul itis not inde tab anconquerable nature, but of an undecided character. can arrange to brio us inte communication with any one ri ig us into unication wi or wito is authorized to treat with us you mall have rendered @ great service to your c ve ou for yous rmit you to travel throughout the German and thr all the country occupied by our troops: reach Metz before you, and will facili into the place. It is true that an armistice will be 4 to-morrow at mid-day, but this Is only a military which implies no pledge, and recognizes Fight, Will you leave ‘me this Gat sunbas tt ba Boe Your readers may remember that this was an imperialist journal, published tn London in Sep tember, 1870, After telitng us how he slept in a room intended for a general officer, M. Regnier gives @ copy of a letter which he wrote to Bismarck ‘uring that night. He explains that on quitting the German foreposts before Metz he intends to conceal his face with a plaid, and to keep the car- Tiage until his return in the evening. If Bazaine falls in with his proposition, either Canrobert or Bourbaki shall leave Metz clothed in Regnier’s dress, covered up with his plaid, and provided with his passpo! For everybody in the world, except for the Kmpress, the person leaving Metz is to ve M. Regnier :— He is to live with my family in Hastings, and he is only to.go outinthe evening on the jetty: A letter which he to bear from me to Her Majesty will 1 erything under the seal of secrecy, and my house aione to speak to the Marshal or to the Gen- only if it be tne latter I will not undertake that Lebreton, his sister, mav not know it Later, if everything succeeds according to my expectation, but only'in that case, be can resume his individuality, and can say that he has lett Metz at night in a balloon; but this will be only in the event of his putting himseit al the head of the army commisstoned to defend the Cham- be bled if, possible in ® seaport, where there musi bea portion, of the fleet upon which we can rely, The treaty would be signed on the same day, and I should Not be present. If nothing came of the scheme the Mar- shal or the General could return to Metz, in my name, to resume his duties. I married last Christmas a young English woman, who is going to be confined in ‘a few Gays: nevertheless, I should give up to him his place im Meta with regret, for 1 should say to myself, con. selence satistied, that order would be soul re-established in France if all had acted like REGNIER. The droll allusion to his family concerns in con- nection with the welfare of his country is eminently characteristic of the writer; une pereeenay in the postscript has a still more comical effect. N.B.—A telegraphic message addressed to me staff of the ariny at Metz couched in these word: have lost some papers, I should take to convey a consent to the departure ot the Marshal,” “You have lost some lug- Age (det eats) @ consont to the General's eycape ;” “You avo lost nothing, a consent to the departure, of any one I might choose.” " No telegram will mean 4 refusal To give your readers any complete idea of the extraordinarily bold and wild conceptions of this amateur envoy, it will be necessary to translate literally all his incoherent notes, and this would involve a too great encroachment on. your space. But the above short extracts may suffice to excite your wonder that such a man could have secured the confidence of Bismarck and Bazaine. Regnier’s notes of his first visit to the Marshal are still more extraordinary, for here. this novice in diplomacy makes use of an expe- dient that would have done honor to a disciple of Machiavelli. In his report of Bazaine’s conversa- tion, he writes:— He (Bazaine) talks to me of his brilliant situation, of the long time that they can hold out; of his looking upon himself as the palladium of the Empire. He boasts of the good health of his troops—and it J may judge ot his own appearance, which is flourishing, he is not wrong— f “successful sorties which he has made, and of san enee, with which he can get through whenever he But, ma note, Regnier explains that, lest his paolo gees be read while passing through the russian lines, he wrote down the very contrary or the jengusge held by Bazaine. The fact was Bazaine told him that, even by eating the officers? horses, he could only hold out with great diffl- culty until the 18th of October. How eagerly Bazaine fell into nier’s proposition to keep together the Army of Metz as a nucleus for bring- ing about the reestablishment of the Empire under the protection of the Germans, is already well known, and the facts will be more thoroughly sifted. before the conclusion of the present trial. nly object for the moment 1s to exhibit the strange'per- sonality of Regnier. This comes out very stron, in his complaint that, although Bourbaki was wel posted up in his duties, he lost his head from the moment that he crossed the lines, regretted bitterly ever having left his post, and when he arrived at Hastings could do nothing but express his dis- appointment at ha’ been made the tool of an- other man’s scheme. Itis remarkable what won- derful play Regnier made with a couple of photo- graphs. By the aid of one he obtained immediate ‘access to marck, and through him to Bazaine. A second photograph, signed simply with the Prince Imperial’s name, he presented to the Mar- shal, with a request that he would add to it his own autograph, as @ proof that he gave the bearer pleins irs to act for . The bonhomie with which Regnier tells this story is amusing enough, but it is capped by the ingenuousness of a note wherein the author coolly expresses his rej that he did not obtain fuller powers to act. are his very words :— First tault on my part. I ought to have made him write—what he would have written with pleasure- general sau-conduie, which will w possessions ‘@ telegram, wil tate your admis- to, the “You. ere nier 1s authorized to, treat in my name for the sur. render, of the Army of Metz, with all the honors of ar. SPAIN. —+——— Admiral Lobo’s Reason for His Retreat from Gibraltar—Carlist Claim of a Brilliant Victory in a Battle—A Bour- bonist Arsenal Seized. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprip, Oct. 23, 1873, Admiral Lobo has arrived in this city. He assigns as his reason for retreating from Car- tagena to Gibraltar with the government squadron that the only iron-clad vessel attached to his fleet was disabled. Carlist Claim of a Brilliant Victory in Battle. PERPIGNAN, Oct. 23, 1873, The Carlists in this city announce that their forces in the Spanish province of Gerona achieved @ brilliant victory on the 19th inst. over the repub- licans near Puigcerda. Two hundred of the government troops are said to have been killed. Seizure of a Bourbonist Arsenal. Lisbon, October 23, 1873, The police of this city have seized a quantity of arms destined for the Carlists, and arrested the parties who had them in charge. Republican Protest Against Beeaches of Neutrality. MapRID, Oct, 23, 1873, The Spanish government has sent a note to the foreign Powers, complaining of the intentional interference of a French gunboat, by which the naval engagement off Cartagena was brought on. ‘The Madrid journals charge that while the fight was going on the men on the French fleet shouted “Vive la Republique Sociale ;” also that a French steather has taken provisions to the city, and that the Consul of France violates the obligations of neutrality. French Report of Barbarous Retalia- tions by the Contending Forces. BAYONNE, Oct, 23, 1873, Itis reported that the Republicans have muti. lated their prisoners, and that the Carlists have, consequently, resolved to give no quarter here- after. DEEP SEA TELEGRAPHY. Danish Concession for Cable Communication with New York. French TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK WERALD, Havana, Oct. 23, 1873. Advices from St, Thomas to the 17th inst. have been received. ‘The Danish government has granted a concession for the laying of telegraph cabies from St. Thomas to St. Croix, Para, the Bermudas and New York. CUBA. Police Arrest of Havana Professors of tho “Queer.” TELEGRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD, HAVANA, Oct. 28, 1873. The police have searched a number of houses and arrested several persons on the charge of manufacturing and passing counterfelt paper, HAVANA MARKET, ve—No. 12, Duteh standart 1h her bp . a reals per arrober ‘Becbange dalets on Onived States, @iinys, dure rency, 56 a 58 per cent premium; do. short sight, aa 64 Der cont premium. , FRANCE, Cabinet Council and Ministerial Opinion of the Condition of the Country—The Budget in Preparation—The Permanent Commit- tee of the Assembly Dissolved— Conservative Republican- ism the Popular Ides. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Paris, Oct. 28, 1873. At a Cabinet Councthto-day it was resolved that the state of the country does not require an early meeting of the Assembly, but that the Ministry is ready to accept the decistou of the Permanent Committee on this point. MONAROHIST STRATEGY. The monarchists have determined not to lasten the reopening of the Assembly. The Bonapartist organ, Le Gaulots, publishes & document, signed by many Deputies who favor plediscitum, protesting against a restoration of the monarchy without consulting the country. THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE OF THE ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED. The last sitting of the Permanent Committee was held yesterday. M. Noel Parfait, on behalf of the Left, gave notice that no more interpellations would be addressed to the government in the com- mittee. President Buffet thereupon declared the labors of the Permanent Committee terminated. The subject of the calling of the Assembly was not touched upon, amd the day for the reopening 1s left to the appointment of the Minister. THE BUDGET. M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, stated that the Budget could not be completed before Novem- ber 5. CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANISM THE CITIZEN SENTI- MENT. The Deputies of the Left Centre have adopted by @ unanimous vote a resolution in favor of & conservative republic. M. Say, on behalf of the Left Centre, refused to listen to the overtures of the Duke d’Andiffret-Pasquier for a coalition with the Right Centre. M. Peretre, whose intentions were previously doubtful, has declared in favor of the Republic. The monarchists are less hopeful. Specie in Heavy Flow to the Bank. PaRIs, Oct. 23, 1873. The specie reserve of the Bank of France has tmcreased 3,000,000 francs during the past week. GERMANY. Emperor William and Prince Bismarck in the Vienna Exhibition Building—Im- perial Compliment to American Tal- ent—French Retreat from the Kaiser’s Presence. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, Oct, 23, 1873. ‘The German Emperor and Prince Bismarck visited the Exhibition yesterday. They expressed par- ticular desire to see the American machinery in motion and were conducted through the depart- ment of the United States, where they examined with interest several of the most curious inven- tions, FRENCH FLIGHT FROM THE KAISER’S PRESENCE. As the Emperor approached the French depart- ment many of the exhibitors left the premises. ENGLAND. Conservative Triumph at an Election Poll—Bul- lion in Flow from the Bank— Discount on 'Change. TELEGRAM TO THE REW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Oct. 23, 1873. Mr. Pease, the conservative candidate, has been elected member of Parliament from Hull, to fill the vacatcy in the representation of that city. His majority was 279. BULLION FROM THE BANK AND DISCOUNT ON 'CHANGE, The bullion in the Bank of Engiana has decreasea £287,000 during the past week. The rate of discount in the open market for three months’ bills is 6 7-16 per cent, or 9-16 per cent be- low the Bank of England rate. ROME. Vatican Mission to the French Bishops—The Headquarters of the Jesuits. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ROME, Oct. 23, 1873, His Eminence Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pitra, of the order of Benedictines, 1s about to leave the Holy City for France, it is understood on a mission from the Vatican to the French bishops, Cardinal Pitra is a Frenchman, having been born in the diocese of Autin on the 3ist of August in the year 1812. THE JESUIT MIGRATION. Itis reported that the Father General of the Jesuits has transferred the headquarters of the order to Malta. SAXONY. His Majesty the King at the Point of Death, TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. DRESDEN, Oct, 23, 1873, His Majesty King Jonn of Saxony is dying. The physicians’ bulletins announce that his condition is hopeless. The King of Saxony was born on the 12th of December, in the year 1801. He married, on the 2ist of November, 1822, Amelia Augusta, daughter of Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria. The King has three children, the eldest, Prince Frederic Au- gustus Albert, being the heir apparent. HAYTL Details of the Effects of the Hurricane Disas- ter—The Produce Market. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, Oct. 23, 1873. Jacmel papers of the 10th inst. report that the hurricane of the 28th ult. was very destructive. A great many lives were lost and 500 houses were blown down. Goods arriving by steamers could not be landed, as there were no lighters left in port. Coffee was in good demand at 14 a 1444, POLICE MATTERS, The Charges Against Detectives Before the Board of Commissioners—A Hear- ing on Next Tuesday.: At the regular meeting of the Board of Police held yesterday afternoon, the following communi- cation was before the Commissioners :— New Yorx, Oot. 22 1873, To te Honoraste rar Boarp OF Tax Pouce Commis- SIONRRS -— GENTLEMEN—In several of the prominent daily of this city, attacks, not only personal to mysel those under me, arising out of the Macdonald forgery case, have appeared, and it is not only my desire, but that of every man under me, to have a full and impartial Investigation, to satisty the public. Itismy destre, and men o and, ; - chief clerk, should draw. up the ‘specientions “and Bareeees such « broad nals if, Dut to case may have the most searching investigation, Yours respectiull; AMES | TRING, Captain of the Detective Force. A resolution was passed ordering Captain Irvi and Detective ag! Oe Phage themselves before the Boara on lay next, at eleven . M. for trial. iperintendent Matsell wi requested to furnish the Board with in- formation in his ssion on the subject of ambling, and to make such si ‘tions as seemed ‘o him advisable for its suppression. The detec. tive Itat was before the Board, and, it is said, the — inyend to act upop it qt an 2 OCTOBER 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHERT. NORTH CAROLINA COUNi« GFEITERS. Another Haul of Dealers i} to-day sean the “Queer.” A Bungling Raid—Arrest of a Foreman of a Grand Jury—Greed of the People for Coin, GREENSBORO, N. C., Oct. 23, 1873. The exploits of the Secret Service men among the Queersmen and the arrests of the latter are the sensation and the excitement of the hour. Un- fortunately, however, for the public good, there has been uncailed for delay and the grossest mis- Management in effecting the arrests of the coun- terfeiters in this State. The original and carefully matured plan determined upon tn general consult- ation by the Secret Service corps at Knoxsville, that of making a general and concerted descent on Monday, has been departed from ana the prospect now is that quite a number of the counterieiters will escape. The United States Marshal here did not act with the promptitude, secrecy and deter- mination the occasion required, though urged to do so by the Secret Service men in this section, and hence the delay and uncertainty about the arrests. Added to this the deputy marshals sent to make the arrests were selected from the very worst material, some of them being careless, cowardly and of a moral status that evokes the contempt of ah honest men. No action was taken here until Tuesday and then only A PARTIAL MOVEMENT was made. Two squads of deputy marshals, ac- companied by Secret Service men, were despatched to the counties of Cabarrus and Rowan, where ar- rests were made to tke number of nine, three of whom escaped or were lost after their capture. The most singular of these is the arrest of William A. Houck, a wealthy man at Salisbury, where be was at the time foreman of the Grand Jury at the State Circuit Court. When it was discovered by the State authorities that a United States Marshal had laid vioient bands on so important a civil fuactionary as THE FOREMAN OF THE GRAND JURY, @ warrant was forthwith tssued for the arrest of the Deputy Marshal for contempt of court. The latter, with more than ordinary zeal and determi- nation, retained his prisoner, notwithstanding, and when brought into Court exhibited as his justification for arresting the juryman Uncle Sam’s warrant. Upon this the Marshal was released upon his own recognizance, and the jury- man, being sadly required to make an indictment, was brought before a United States Commissioner and was bailed in the sum of $5,000 to appear. Flynn 8, Bradshaw was arrested at his residence, five miles from China Grove depot, in Rowan coun- ty, having.on mis person tio half dollar and two goid dollar counterfeit coms. Davida Arnhart, a larmer of respectability, was captured about four- veen miles from Salisbury, but while en route to that city gave the Marshal the slip, too, and was lost. J, A. Loudrey and C. F, Loudrey, both to- bacco speculators and farmers in Rowan county, were arrested at thetr homes, the former ina field, the latter at bis house. While the former was being conducted to the house he requested the innocent officer to allow him to return to the field for his basket. The humane Marshal granted the permission: but Landrey, tailing to appreciate his indness, vanished and is gone. On the person andin the trank of the remaining Landrey the officers found $250 in counterfeit gold coins of the denominations of one, two and a half and five doliars and a box full of cancelled tobacco ‘stamps. He was taken safely to Salisbury, where he was abiled in the sum of $10,000, W. R. Blackweider, a jarmer living 8ix miies from Concord station, on the North Carolina Railroad, in Cabarrus county, was quietly arrested at his residence while dining with his family. He had a $5 legal tender counterfeit when arrested. He was also bailed in $5,000, Edward and David Lipe, bovh farmers in Cabarrus county, were arrested at their homes, where a quantity of base coin and “queer” currency was found. Both were bailed in $5,000. Joseph Baker, A NOTORIOUS DEALER IN THE BOGUS CURRENCY and base coin his whole lifetime, was arrested in Rowan county and taken to Sailsbury to a hotel for the night from: which he skillully escaped through a k way. Squads sent to Rockingham, Wilkes and Watagua counties have not yet re- turned, and the success Of their mission remains uncertain. I am told there has been an intense greed among the people in this section tu obtain coin. They make any and every sacrifice to get hoid of it, and then hide it and hoard it with the jealousy of misers. No attention whatever is paid to the character of the coin, so it is coin, and itis now belleved that immense quantities oi the spuri- ous specie is hid in all sorts of secret places by the Roople throughout the entire section of Western orth Carolina. WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 1873. The Agricultural Report for October. The October report of tne statistician of the De- partment of Agriculture includes a digest of re- turns from the counties producing a iarge propor- tionof the corn crop of the United States. It is not the final report upon the quantity, comparea with last year’s crop, but the last report of the season upon the condition of the crop. The aver- age is 84, or 16 per cent below @ normal crop. The October average last year was 108, or 8 per cent above. The crop of last year was estimated at 1,092,000,000 bushels. In view of the decrease of 4 per cent in area the indicated reduction is above 23 per cent, or 250,000,000 bushels. The only States returning the average condition are Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, California and Oregon. The other averages are as follows:—Maine, 85; New Hampshire, 99; New York, 89; New Jersey, 99; Pennsylvania, 93; Delaware, 76; Maryland, 91; Virginia, 99; North Carolina, 95; South Carolina, 89; Alabama, 92; Mississippi, 86; Louisiana, 92; Texas, 78; Tennessee, 91; West Virginia, 96; Ken- tucky, 94; Onio, 88; Michigan, 88; Indiana, 84; Illi- nois, 67; Wisconsin, 88; Minnesota, 97; lowa, 81; Missouri, 76; Kansas, 66; Nebraska, 77. Judicial Honors to the Memory of Chief Justice Chase. At the opening of the Supreme Court to-day At- torney General Williams presented the resolutions of the Bar in respect to the memory of the late Chief Justice Chase, and, in the course of the re- marks he made, said:— Posterity will know him through his public ser- vices, but we, his associates and friends, know and can appreciate a8 well his private virtues. Physi- cally, intellectually and morally he was all that a Chief Justice ought to be. Impelled by wnat has been termed the infinity of noble minds, he pur- sued with untiring zeal his lofty aims, and, what- ever else may be said of his aspirations, happily no one can say that they marred the excellence or purity of his personal character. He went down the ve crowned with years and many Leese and lett to his children and his country the recor oi a life Rich in the world’s opinion and men’s praise, ‘And full of all we could desire but days. Associate Justice Clifford, in response, reviewed the public career of the deceased, saying :— Men find it easy to review others, but much more diMcult to criticise and review vheir own acts, and et that is the very summit to which the epee judge should always be striving. Pride of opinion ‘at such a time is too apt to predominate over a Jove of justice. But it was exactly under such circumstances that the late Chief Justice was called upon to review, as @ judge, one of the most striking and conspicuous of his acts as the guardian of the national Treasury, at & moment when the fate of the nation so much depended upon its cor- rect administration. Great success attended the scheme when it was adopted, and time had secured for it an extensive approval as the war of the Rebellion was victori- ously ended and the national wealth was rapid! increasing. Circumstances better calculat to foster bce) of opinion cannot well be 11 ined 5 but the Chief Justice who had so creditably me: the demands of duty in sucha great variety of other responsible positions, did not hesitate to ap- ply his best powers to the task of review! the measure in question, and Shelly. reco! his Sees that it was not justified by the constitu. tion, Judges and jurists may dissent from his final conclusion and hold, as @ majority of the jus- tices of this Court do, that he was right as Secre- tary of the Treasury, but ev generous mind, as it seems to me, should honor the candor and seli- control which inspired and induced such action. In conclusion he said the justices of this Court had lost @ revered companion, and the public at magistrate and an upright public servant. e Court concurred in the resolutions of the Bar and directed that they be entered on the minutes. The Court then, from respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned until tomorrow. THE PHELPS INVESTIGATION, ALBANY, N. ¥., Oot, 23, 1873. ‘Tho varions investigations which nave been in progress here show that Phelps committed the robbery of the Treasury. The amount of plunder secured willcome much under that first stated. the Canal Trust funds show that tt is 1a soe his | a fund committed to the Treasurer of the Sta’ ® “spectal trust,” to be used by Luu in his diacre tals : 7 PATAL AOOIDENY. A Man Falls Into a White Lead Vat and is Saffocated. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct, 25/1073. Frey, aged forty years, fell intowa va® at the Westboro White Lead Works, corner of Fit “geenth street and Montgomery avenue. He uttered a cry for help, and four jons attempted to rescue him, but the fumes were so heavy as topro- trate a¥/ of them and they were compelled to seek" thelr own galety. So overpowered ware they that w f them could ry dragged off aid. Frey was sabsequentl; out dead. Snyder was sakeney the hospital, where he lies.im @ critical conditios nlp ptcee eet —tipiaietieeting OUBAN CIGAR: MAKERS ON STRIKE, Yesterday evening tite workmen employed at the Manufactory of Messrs» Mora, of Water street, numbering about seventy, met at Masomic Hall, and agreed to carry on the\strike against a reduo~ tion of their wages. The ig are the ratem paid at the present per 1,000, and the reduced rates which the firm propose payings— Espafiolas. frongpeld, Sree Pizuros i Regalias. 33 Conchas. 2 bad The meeting was of a very enthustastic and un- a@nimous nature. THE TWENTYSEVENTH S8TREEE WIFE MU. jRDER, Post Mortem Examination—Invostiga- tion Next Monday. In the case of Mrs, Bridget Thompson, late of No, 451 West Twenty-seventh street, the woman al- leged to have been fatally kicked and beaten by’ her husband, David Thompson, as heretofore pub- lished in the HeRaup, Deputy Coroner Joseph’ Cushman yesterday aiternoon made a post-mortem examination on the body at the house and found” bruises over her clitn and thigh; the seventh and’ eighth ribs were fractured, besides which there — was a rupture of the spleen, causing internal* hemorrhage. Death, in the opinion of Dr. man, resulted from the above described injurtes.- The husband, who is a sober and industrious man, admits kicking his wife but peremptorily aenies* having any intent to take ler life, Ouoroner Herr-- man empanelied a jury, and, after viewing the re- matns, adjourned the turther tnvestigation of the matter till next Monday, at which time Captaim McElwain, of the Twentieth precinct, will have the witnesses in attendance. 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